Description:
This book is a collection of fascinating articles on the Soviet economy by an eminent economist. Most were written as current commentaries and were meant to report and to interpret developments in the Soviet economy under Gorbachev more or less as they occurred. Hanson's reflections cover more than particular events or a particular Soviet debate. In general, the articles were written for readers who were not necessarily either economists or Sovietologists, and they offer important insight on the ongoing transition of the Soviet economy to a free market economy.
Brief description: PHILIP HANSON is professor of Soviet economics at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is the author of several books on the Soviet economy and East-West trade, of journal articles in Soviet Studies, Soviet Economy, The Journal of Comparative Economics, European Economic Review and elsewhere, and of press articles for the Financial Times, Times (London), Independent, and Wall Street Journal. Hanson has been a visiting professor of economics at the University of Michigan and a senior Mellon fellow at Harvard University's Russian Research Center.
Review Quotes: "This volume is eminent evidence of how much it was possible to know about Soviet developments in recent years, using Sovietological techniques applied with healthy skepticism and a good sense of reality."- Anders Aslund Director, Stockholm Institute of Soviet and East European Economics