Contractual state in Russia

The monograph provides a comprehensive institutional analysis of the Russian state using the tools of various areas of neo-institutional economic theory. The work gives a detailed description of the state with a predominance of contract principles. The author of the monograph substantiates from the economic point of view the complex criterion of attributing the state to the state with a predominance of contract principles and identifies possible types of such a state. The proposed toolkit allows the author to reveal tendencies and main problems of contract state formation in Russia, as well as to substantiate approaches to institutional reforms aimed at changing the role and functions of the Russian state in the formation of market economy and contract society. The work is of interest to specialists dealing with the problems of institutional economics, researchers, teachers, post-graduates, masters and university students.