Monograph . — Rostov-on-Don: Science Press, 2006. — 512 s. This collective monograph is by far the best reflection of the views of representatives of various branches of institutionalism on the evolution of the Russian economy in the 1990s. The monograph summarizes the results of research on the institutional theory of the relationship between government and business in pre-revolutionary Russia, in the USSR and in the post-Soviet republics. The prerequisites and main stages of interaction between the state and business at the macro-, meso- and micro-level are shown . Although the economic situation in the ex-Soviet states (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan) is different, the authors of the collective monograph believe that similarities prevail over differences. The collection includes the works of institutionalists of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Donetsk, Minsk, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo, Kyzylorda . The book is recommended to specialists in the field of economic theory, graduate students, economists and all interested in the institutional problems of modern economics.