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Baudrillard Goes to Kyiv: Institutional Simulacra in Transition
Journal of Economic and Social Thought
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Baudrillard Goes to Kyiv: Institutional Simulacra in Transition
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HARTWELL, Christopher Andrew; Kozminski University
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The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union from 1989 onward has been focused on the reform of institutions in order to re-orient the economy. However, throughout the former Soviet space, “transition” has been merely a label for many countries, covering the reality of a fundamental lack of change in either political or economic institutions. Using the idea of simulacra and simulation, first posited by philosopher Jean Baudrillard in 1981, I show how institutional change in transition for some prominent “transition economies” has proceeded through stages in simulation. In particular, using examples from Central Asia and Ukraine, I examine how crucial institutions have changed from a perversion of reality into symbols that are divorced from any reality. Current events in Ukraine show that institutional simulacra can exposed when an exogenous reality forces its way through.Keywords. Institutions, simulacra, transition, Ukraine.JEL. B25, B52, Z13.
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Journal of Economic and Social Thought
Journal of Economic and Social Thought |
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2015-06-18
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEST/article/view/282
10.1453/jest.v2i2.282 |
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Journal of Economic and Social Thought; Vol 2, No 2 (2015): June; 92-105
Journal of Economic and Social Thought; Vol 2, No 2 (2015): June; 92-105 2149-0422 |
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eng
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http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEST/article/view/282/430
http://www.kspjournals.org/index.php/JEST/article/downloadSuppFile/282/102 |
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Copyright (c) 2015 Journal of Economic and Social Thought
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 |
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