Brokers and bureaucrats : building market institutions in Russia / Timothy Frye.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.

Introduction: The Problem of Social Order -- 1. Institutions and Social Order: Sociological and Economic Approaches -- 2. Self-Governance and Social Order: A More Political Approach -- 3. Benign Neglect: Self-Governance on Currency Futures Markets -- 4. The Meddlesome Leviathan: Self-Governance on the Commodities Markets -- 5. Toward a Politics of Social Order: Self-Governance on the Equities Market -- 6. What Governs? Organizational Competition and the Weak Russian State -- 7. State Policy and Self-Governance: The Political Roots of Social Order -- 8. The Bear's Bear: Institutional Developments and the Crash of 1998 -- Conclusion: Social Order and Social Science.