Sbornik statey posvyashchen izucheniyu institutsional'nykh izmeneniy v perekhodnoy ekonomike Rossii s devyanostykh godov dvadtsatogo veka do nastoyashchego vremeni, v osnove kotorykh lezhat innovatsionnye protsessy. Avtory schitayut, chto v rossiyskoy ekonomike do nastoyashchego vremeni sokhranilis' instituty, prisushchie predydushchey bol'shoy stadii razvitiya narodnogo khozyaystva strany - traditsionnoy ekonomiki. Takoe polozhenie kasaetsya osnovnykh institutov, formiruyushchikh karkas natsional'noy ekonomicheskoy sistemy. Na vzglyad avtorov sokhranenie starykh institutov, a takzhe korennaya transformatsiya zaimstvovannykh institutov, privnosyashchikhsya, "eksportiruemykh" iz razvitykh stran v nechto nevoobrazimoe dlya zapadnoy ekonomiki,sil'no tormozyat temp perekhoda rossiyskoy ekonomiki k polnotsennoy rynochnoy sisteme. Nekotorye zapadnye instituty, preobrazhayutsya pri etom dazhe v svoyu protivopolozhnost'. Avtory pytayutsya predlozhit' sobstvennoe videnie neobkhodimykh izmeneniy institutov v sovremennoy rossiyskoy ekonomike. Institutsional'nye izmeneniya dolzhny okhvatit' takie instituty kak sobstvennost', kharakter i otnoshenie k trudu, raspredelitel'nye otnosheniya, otnoshenie k uspekhu drugikh lyudey i drugie.