Adam Smith Goes to Moscow: A Dialogue on Radical Reform - Hardcover

Adams, Walter; Brock, James W.

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9780691032832: Adam Smith Goes to Moscow: A Dialogue on Radical Reform

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ISBN 10: 0691032831 ISBN 13: 9780691032832

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1993

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Adam Smith Goes to Moscow is a captivating dialogue between the head of a hypothetical, formerly socialist East European country and a fervently market-minded American adviser. Their spirited give-and-take highlights the monumental political as well as economic complexities currently faced by the former Soviet bloc countries as they struggle to transform themselves into free market economies.

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"A fascinating conversation between an Eastern European statesman... and an American economist.... The economist lays out the arguments for unfettered capitalism of a textbook variety; the statesman reminds him that reality in western economies differs significantly from such an idealized world. In a remarkably short time spent with this book, even a neophyte can learn much about the issues facing those who must grapple with the monumental task of converting economies from pale shadows of the socialist ideal to (hopefully) less pale shadows of the capitalist version."--William F. Sharpe, Nobel Laureate in Economics

"Organized imaginatively and written with wit and style ... lucid and accessible."--Padma Desai, Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union

About the Author:

Walter Adams, Past President of Michigan State University, is now Vernon F. Taylor Distinguished Professor of Economics at Trinity University (Texas), and James W. Brock is Moeckel Professor of Business at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

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