The Soviet Economic Decline Revisited
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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.
Response to this article by William Easterly and Stanley Fischer: Reply to Brendan Beare (EJW, May 2008).
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