Scholarly Comments on Academic Economics

The Soviet Economic Decline Revisited

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*Brendan Beare* is a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 2007. His primary field of research is econometric theory. His email is rendan.beare@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.

Abstract

In this comment I identify a simple error in William Easterly and Stanley Fischer’s econometric study of the postwar Soviet economic growth slowdown. The results of the study change substantially.

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Pages
135-144
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JEL classification
O40, N14
Keywords
Economic growth; Soviet economy; extensive growth
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