Editor's Introduction

Abstract

It is difficult to find examples of explicit opposition to the general principles of marketization and privatization in the Soviet or Russian economic literature of the last twelve to eighteen months. But within this common framework there is no shortageof differing views on the appropriate rates of change in prevailingeconomic institutions and the specific forms that the changes should take. The first three articles in our current issue reflect some of the diversity of views on these matters that appeared in the literature immediately prior to the economic "liberalization" initiated early in 1992.