Reading Brezhnev Through Mitrokhin’s Lens Introduction: Was It Really a Planned Economy? Winter holidays are supposed to be for rest. Naturally, many of us use them to do unpaid intellectual labo
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Can Socialism innovate? Soviet lessons and the dependent resilience of global capitalism
Introduction It has become almost an article of faith among economists that a key reason for the demise of the Soviet economic system, and of “really existing socialism” more broadly, was its i
“Getting More Than They Earned”? Reflections on Safronov’s Great Soviet Economy
In my most recent project on Serbia’s Productivity and Wage Dynamics, I analyzed the long-term relationship between real wages and labor productivity, demonstrating that despite periods of wage g