Economic Reform and Democracy: Beyond Shock Therapy

Issue Date April 1995
Volume 6
Issue 2
Page Numbers 102-12
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About the Author

Padma Desai is Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems at Columbia University and the author of The Soviet Economy: Problems and Prospects (1987) and Perestroika in Perspective: The Design and Dilemmas of Soviet Reform (1989).

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