| Titre | Economic culture, economic policy and economic growth in Russia, 1861-1914 | |
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| Auteur | Peter Gatrell | |
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Revue | Cahiers du monde russe |
| Numéro | volume 36, no 1-2, janvier-juin 1995 Cultures économiques et politiques économiques dans l'Empire tsariste et en URSS, 1861 - 1950 | |
| Page | 37-52 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Peter Gatrell, Economic culture, economic policy and economic growth in Russia, 1861- 1914. Rapid economic growth in late imperial Russia was associated with the operation of different economic cultures, perceptions and modes of behaviour. The culture of entrepreneurship, which embodied notions of reward for entrepreneurial risk-taking, stood in sharp contrast to a deeply-entrenched bureaucratic culture, which manifested suspicion towards private enterprise. Bureaucratic culture found expression in arbitrary administrative intervention and conservative tutelage (opeka). An explanation for arbitrariness (proizvol) is found in an underdeveloped administrative capacity and in the attendant insecurity of government. Insecurity on the international plane reflected industrial underdevelopment, but the promotion of industry generated fresh tensioas between state and private enterprise. The era of Bunge (Minister of Finances, 1882- 1886) represented a bold attempt to modernize the fiscal system and to create new foundations for private enterprise, but these initiatives were not sustained. Assailed by contending cultures and social forces, bureaucratic economic culture proved resistant to change. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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