Yegor Gaidar, RIP

by Tom Palmer on December 25, 2009

From the New York Times: `Yegor Gaidar, the Man Who Killed the Command Economy`

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Charles N. Steele December 25, 2009 at 8:42 pm

Contrary to the NYT headline, I don’t believe Yegor Gaidar really killed the command economy, nor did he think he did. It killed itself.

May I suggest anyone interested in why the USSR died read Gaidar’s excellent Collapse of an Empire? It’s a great book, by a great man.

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