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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 947.0854 EAN: 9780393309041 Edition: Updated ISBN: 0393309045 Label: W. W. Norton & Company Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 282 Publication Date: 1992-08 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Studio: W. W. Norton & Company Editorial Review: Product Description: As the Soviet economy steadily worsened, Gorbachev's popularity steadily declined, culminating in the August 1991 coup. This updated edition offers an informed assessment of the new Russia that has emerged in the post-Gorbachev era. Goldman is a regular commentator on Good Morning America and National Public Radio. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Platitudes, received ideas and factual inaccuraciesI understand that Marshall Goldman is/was an esteemed economist at Harvard. To be fair, it is easy to look back on his book (last updated soon after the August 1991 coup) with critical hindsight. However, it has been claimed in the main review that this book was "prescient". So it seems reasonable to point out that Goldman got a lot wrong. His repeated emphasis on the need for early and rapid privatisation (by which I mean selling off state enterprises) as a key part of successful economic reform, ... Read More |
