
The Failed Bet on Russian and Chinese Reform
Apr 27, 2022 looks back at the conditions that led a generation of leaders to assume that liberalization was inevitable.
Michael J. Boskin is Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was Chairman of George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 to 1993, and headed the so-called Boskin Commission, a congressional advisory body that highlighted errors in official US inflation estimates.
Apr 27, 2022 looks back at the conditions that led a generation of leaders to assume that liberalization was inevitable.
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