The Antitrust Bulletin/Spring 1998 Rights and wrongs: a property rights perspective of Russia's market reforms BY ROSE ANNE DEVLIN,* R. QUENTIN GRAFTON* and DANE ROWLANDS** 1. Introduction 275 Many researchers have written about the economic transition of the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.' The experiences of these countries have been com- pared and contrasted in an attempt to identify the best policies for economic transition. While commentators have varying views as * Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. ** Assistant Professor, Norman Patterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. AUTHORS' NOTE We acknowledge the excellent research assistance of Sam La Bell. This short article cannot hope to do justice to the myriad of excel- lent papers written on economic transition. Instead, it focuses on a few of the key papers written on aspects of the transition that are pertinent to the narrow topic at hand. © 1998 by Federal Legal Publications. Inc.