Marek Dabrowski is a Non-Resident Scholar at Bruegel, Brussels, Professor of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and Co-founder and Fellow at CASE - Center for Social and Economic Research in Warsaw. He was a co-founder of CASE (1991), former Chairman of its Supervisory Council and President of Management Board (1991-2011), Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CASE Ukraine in Kyiv (1999-2009 and 2013-2015), and Member of the Board of Trustees and Scientific Council of the E.T. Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy in Moscow (1996-2016).

Provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging overview of the Russian economy in the 2020s

Studies the Russian economy comparatively with other emerging-market and advanced economies

Provides a benchmark for students to assess Russia's strengths, weaknesses, and future challenges

Part I: Natural and Human Resources.- Chapter 1: Natural resources, geography, and climate (by Leonid Limonov).- Chapter 2: Human resources (by Irina Denisova and Marina Kartseva).- Part II: Historical Roots.- Chapter 3: Capitalist industrialization and modernization: since Alexander's reforms until World War I (the 1860s - 1917) (by Carol Scott Leonard).- Chapter 4: The Soviet economy (1918-1991) (by Carol Scott Leonard).- Part III. Institutions and Their Transformation.- Chapter 5: Constitutional foundations of the economic system and the role of government in economic activity (by Christopher Hartwell).- Chapter 6: Regulatory environment and business climate (by Marek Dabrowski).- Chapter 7: Evolution of ownership structure and corporate governance (by Alexander Radygin).- Part IV: Major Sectors and Regional Diversity.- Chapter 8: Structural changes in the Russian economy since 1992 (by Boris Kuznetsov).- Chapter 9: Energy sector (oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity) and energy intensity (by Przemyslaw Kowalski).- Chapter 10: Agriculture (by Evgeniya Serova).- Chapter 11: Science, research and innovation (by Boris Kuznetsov).- Chapter 12: Regional diversity (by Leonid Limonov).- Part V: Russia in the Global Economy.- Chapter 13: Trade (by Arne Melchior).- Chapter 14: Foreign investment (by Kalman Kalotay).- Chapter 15: Sanctions and forces driving to autarky (by Marek Dabrowski).- Part VI: Economic and Social Policy Challenges.- Chapter 16: Economic growth (by Ilya Voskoboynikov).- Chapter 17: Macroeconomic vulnerability, monetary and fiscal policies (by Marek Dabrowski).- Chapter 18: Labour market, employment, and migration (by Vladimir Gimpelson).- Chapter 19: Living standard and social policy (by Irina Denisova and Marina Kartseva).- Chapter 20: Summary: changes in an economic system since the early 2000s (by Marek Dabrowski).