Tansey
Autonomy
July 17, 2016
Political market
Economic market
Growing Differences
Growing Self-sufficiency
Place the following words into the appropriate boxes of the matrix
War, Price Wars, Balkanization, Espionage, Spying, Lobbying, Inefficiency, information
asymmetry, rationing, emergency administration, Looting, hoarding, mercenary armies,
police forces, Conquering, protectionism, tariffs, quotas, arms wars,
Interaction, Interdependence
Political market
Economic market
Growing Standardization:
Growing Specialization:
Place the following words into the appropriate boxes of the matrix
Favored nation trading
Free trade
Law of one Price
Mergers: Hostile, Friendly
Mergers: vertical, Horizontal,
Alliances
Nation-Building
Comparative Advantage
Purchasing Power parity
The Fisher Effect
Market power
Political power
Dynamic market failure
Customs unions,
Confederations,
Oligopoly
Oligarchy
Monopoly
Tyranny
Competition
Political rivalry
Imitating constitutions and laws
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Russia
I.
Origin
A. map of nomadic tribes.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/german_migrations_150_
1066.jpg
900 A.D.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/europe_peoples_900.jpg
Cultural roots- Eisenstein (movie)
B. Byzantine-Eastern Roman Empire:
 Language: 1914
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/euro_language_
dist_1914.jpg

map of religion (pp. 62-63 textbook for the present)
Spread of Christianity
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/christianity_dev
_1300.jpg
seen from the eyes of an Arab: ibn fadlan,
Byzantine empire and Frankish Empires (814)
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/byzantine_empir
es_814.jpg
the Crusades 11th to 14th centuries.
RELIGIOUS STRUGGLE FOR AUTONOMY
B.
Legal Roots- Fall of the Byzantine empire. Return Brutalization
 Varangians-10th century- Kiev. Rus State. Dissolved into three
principalities
 Mongols (13th-15th century) Genghis Kahn,
 Muscovy conquers.(16th century)
 The expansion:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/russian_growth_
1300_1796.jpg
 Pogroms against the Jews
 Napoleon
POLITICAL STRUGGLE FOR AUTONOMY
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II.
Asian dictatorship: The Romanovs.
A.
Peter the Great Cultural reforms: Looking to the West.
Standardization
San Marco, Venice
Photo, historical
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/St_Marks.html
Madonna Dell'Orto, Gothic Church in Venice, Italy
http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_print_pages/0133-0602-08115135.html
III.
Oligarchy:
A.
War With Japan – 1905 (Theodore Roosevelt the arbiter)- Lost!
B.
Prelude to World War I. Nicky, george and whilhelm- all cousins.
AUTONOMY: The political market place
IV.
World War I. Interdependence destroyed (inefficiencies, poverty)
A.
Poverty and destruction of the people: Government failure; inequity
B.
Strikes
Emergency Powers: what type of intervention does this involve?
V.
Revolution
A.
White (Kerensky) vs. Red (Trotsky, Lenin)
B.
Peace; Russia disassembled
map after 1918.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/europe_1924.jpg
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VI.
Communism
A.
Marxism- Germany. What is the implicit government failure to
government ownership? (Dynamic market failure, Efficiency Costs,
compliance costs)
B.
Transition from Peasant private economy to Government Ownership.
20 million deaths. Government Failure: Efficiency Costs
C.
Industrialization- “Stalin”. Steel.
- Vertical relationships.
- Banks as Subsidizers not lenders
D.
World Isolation of Russia:
 Law of one price
 Comparative Advantage
VII.
World War II : 1939-1945
A.
Dissaving- Keynesian Cross
B.
Depreciation as new capital
VIII.
IX.
Russian Empire & cold war
The fall of the Soviet Union
New York Times (October 28, 1988) p. 1
“Aide to Gorbachev rules Out Baltic Independence Moves”
AUTONOMY?
“Deficits in Soviet Budgets Are disclosed by Kremlin; Wasteful Subsidies blamed:
Investment sought: foreigners to be allowed a controlling interest in Joint ventures.”
The Soviet Finance Minister said today that the Soviet Union has been running
large budget deficits for years and predicted that this year the deficit would amount to
the official equivalent of $58 billion. It was the first time that the government had
made public this indicator of its economic distress.
Finance Minister boris i. gostev, in disclosing the anticipated… deficit to a
session of the Soviet parliament, or Supreme Soviet, said big Government subsidies
of mismanaged industry and agriculture were among the main culprits.
Government Failures?
X.
Transition to Capitalism
NYT section 3 (November 24, 2002) p. 1
“Why U.S. Oil companies and Russian Resources don’t mix” by Neela Banerjee and
Sabrina Tavernise”
In a little over a year, the United States has done a startling diplomatic about-face
on Russia, moving it from second-rate-power status to vital ally, thanks mostly to one
thing: oil.
Eager to develop sources of oil outside the Middle East, the Bush administration
is pushing American oil companies to invest in Russia, and president Vladimir V.
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Putin has thrown his weight behind tax and regulatory changes to draw foreign
investment.
The only problem is that American oil companies are not buying. After years of
grappling with stubborn bureaucracies and hostile local oil companies, western
executives doubt that even Mr. Putin can make investing in Russia much easier. The
Russian industry, led by companies like Yukos and Sibneft, has turned itself around
and is now battling to keep foreigners of its turf.
The two sides are mired in a standoff that most executives and analysts say will
drag on for years.
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