Adam Smith Goes to Moscow - A Dialogue on Radical Reform

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.

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.

Summary

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.

Additional text

"It is refreshing to read a piece of scholarship based on such careful research on both sides of a vital issue. . . . This is important scholarship only thinly disguised as fiction. It deserves a wide audience."---William S. Brown, Journal of Economic Issues

Product details

• Authors: Walter Adams, Walter Brock Adams, Adams Walter, James Brock, James W. Brock, Brock James W.
• Assisted by: Robert Heilbroner (Foreword)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.1994
• EAN: 9780691000534
• ISBN: 978-0-691-00053-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Eastern Europe, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Economic theory & philosophy, International Economics, Economic theory and philosophy