%A A Ledeneva %T The ambivalence of favour: Paradoxes of Russia's economy of favours %X The contributors to this volume treat favours, and the doing of favours, as a distinct mode of acting, rather than as a form of masked economic exchange or simply an expression of goodwill. %K Ambivalence, typology of favours, methodology, informal exchange. %I Oxford University Press %L discovery1551569 %N 2 %C Oxford, United Kingdom %S Economies of Favour After Socialism %B Economies of Favour After Socialism %D 2016 %O This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.