David M. Woodruff

Ph.D, University of California-Berkeley, 1996
Visiting Associate Professor of Social Studies, Harvard University
Senior Fellow 2004-05, Davis Center

Contact Information
dmwoodr@fas.harvard.edu
www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dmwoodr

Research Interests
Contemporary Russian political economy; financial system politics in emerging markets; politics of international trade and finance; law and economics.

Current Projects
A book on the politics of money and corporate stock as legal institutions in contemporary Russia.

Selected Publications
Money Unmade: Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999).

"It's Value That's Virtual: Bartles, Rubles, and the Place of Gazprom in the Russian Economy,” Post-Soviet Affairs 15, no. 2 (April-June 1999): 130-148.

“Rules for Followers: Institutional Theory and the New Politics of Economic Backwardness in Russia,” Politics & Society 28, no. 4 (2000): 437-482.

"Property Rights in Context: Privatization's Legacy for Corporate Legality in Poland and Russia." Studies in Comparative International Development (Forthcoming)