Even more dramatic were the failures in Russia. The country thathad already been the victim of one experiment—communism—wasmade the subject of a new experiment, that of putting into place the notion of a self-regulating market economy, before government had had a chance to put into place the necessary legal and institutional infrastructure.Just as some seventy years earlier, the Bolsheviks had forced a rapid transformation of society, the neoliberals now forced another rapid transformation, with disastrous results. The people of the country had been promised that once market forces were unleashed, the economy would boom: the inefficient system of central planning, that distorted resource allocation, with its absence of incentives from social ownership, would be replaced with decentralization, liberalization, and privatization.

在政府有机会实施必要的法律和体制改革之前，这个曾经是共产主义一次试验的受害者的国家，被作为一次新试验的对象，即实施自我调节的市场经济的概念基础设施。只是大约70年前，布尔什维克新自由主义者曾迫使社会迅速转型，现在又迫使社会迅速转型，结果是灾难性的。该国人民曾得到承诺，一旦市场力量得到释放，经济就会繁荣起来：效率低下的中央计划制度、扭曲的资源分配以及缺乏社会所有权的激励，将被权力下放、自由化和私有化所取代。