But the Russians suffer from not having the kind of efficient administrative state and regulatory structure to ensure that the competence of the educated elite guides economic growth and development.
Did you forget your sarcasm tag? If you really believe that the. you're part of the problem we face in America.
Some Russian customers are complaining that Vkusno i tochka doesn’t taste quite like McDonald’s. The Russians are corrupt. But McDonald’s was a brand and everyone knows that they have a reputation to uphold.
“ But the Russians suffer from not having the kind of efficient administrative state and regulatory structure to ensure that the competence of the educated elite guides economic growth and development.”
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I’m assuming you forgot your sarc tag. The Russians are basically letting the markets dictate how resources are allocated and businesses restarted, shut down or reorganized under the current sanctions regime. The funny thing is that the Russians used to have Communist Oarty political officers in just about every business to “guide” actions. Now those “dead weight” Party cadres are gone with the wind that blew the Soviet Union away with the result that Russian businesses are now free to act in the most efficient manner that they desire. American businesses and government agencies are now on the contrary loaded with DEI officials (who are dead weigh serving only to cause incompetent dead weight to be needlessly hired) overseeing the organizations and making them economically less efficient in the same fashion that the old (and long gone) Communist cadres did in the old Soviet Union.