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This book began with a reference to Anders Åslund’s (1995) claim that ‘Russia has become a market economy’. With the wisdom of hindsight, it can be said that this was a hasty statement considering the share of barter in the Russian economy in the 1990s. Later Åslund specified his claim by noting that Russia fulfils the five criteria of a functioning market economy: economic actors are independent from the state and are able to act freely, private ownership of enterprises is prevalent and property rights reasonably secured, prices and trade are predominantly free, state subsidies are limited and transactions are largely monetized (Åslund 2007: 2–3).
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Lonkila, M. (2011). Conclusions. In: Networks in the Russian Market Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294936_9
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