{"product_id":"zero-sum-the-arc-of-international-business-in-russia-9780197807187","title":"Zero Sum: The Arc of International Business in Russia","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Charles Hecker\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: International - Economics \u0026amp; Trade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the hammer and sickle came down in late 1991, Russia's feverish new market opened for business. From banking to breweries, sectors emerged out of nowhere, in a country that had never had a functioning economy. For the next three turbulent decades, a wild, proto-capitalist free-for-all transformed Russian society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen, in 2022, Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The market started to collapse; Western firms fled Moscow's skyscrapers. No country this large had ever transformed itself as dizzyingly as 1990s Russia--now, just as dramatically, it was over. The intervening decades had seen phenomenal successes and crushing failures; the creation and destruction of enormous fortunes. How did it all happen? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eZero Sum\u003c\/em\u003e brings to life the complex, vivid color of one of the greatest experiments in the history of global commerce. What have businesses learnt--or failed to learn--from this adventure, both about Russia and about dynamics between countries and companies in the face of relentless change?","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47779351330967,"sku":"9780197807187","price":3982.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780197807187.webp?v=1778035720","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/zero-sum-the-arc-of-international-business-in-russia-9780197807187","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}