Aleksanteri Institute workshop “New Perspectives on Russia and Eurasia”
Andrei Yakovlev presented the paper "Varieties of Capitalism: Which Model Did Russia Choose?" at the Aleksanteri Institute workshop on October 11th, 2022.
The paper considers the concept of variety of capitalism and its evolution during the last 20 years. It shows how the focus of this theory moved from discussion of competition between liberal (LME) and coordinated (CME) market economies to the analysis of dependent market economies (DME) and later to the study of patrimonial market economies (PME) and state-permeated market economies (SME). From the point of view of this theoretical framework the paper considers the changes in the approaches to the development of a market economy in Russia. It explains why the attempts undertaken in 1990s and 2000s to introduce LME and SME in Russia failed and why the economic model formed after all institutional changes should be classified as a mix of PME and DME.