Books and Monographs
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Professor Padma Desai
Books and Monographs
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Planning
for Industrialization - A Study of Indian Industrialization and Trade Policies
(with J. Bhagwati)
OECD Development Center,Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970; second printing; paperback edition.
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The
Bokaro Steel Plant - A Study of Soviet Economic Assistance
Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Company, 1972.
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Estimates
of Soviet Grain Imports in 1980-85:Alternative
Approaches
Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute,February 1981.
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Marxism,
Central Planning, and the Soviet Economy:
Economic Essays in Honor of Alexander Erlich (Editor)
Cambridge, Mass: The MIT Press, 1983. |
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Weather
and Grain Yields in the Soviet Union
Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute, 1986.
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The
Soviet Economy: Problems and Prospects
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987. Paperback edition, 1990.
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Perestroika
in Perspective: The Design and Dilemmas of Soviet Reform
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.Revised paperback edition, 1990. The Indonesian and Korean translations of the book were published in 1990.
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Going
Global: Transition from Plan to Market in the World Economy, (Editor)
The MIT Press, December1997. Second Edition in 1999. The Chinese translation of the book appeared in 1999.
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Work Without
Wages: Russia's Nonpayment Crisis (jointly with Todd Idson)
The MIT Press, December 2000. |
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Financial Crisis, Contagion, and Containment:
From Asia to Argentina
Princeton University Press, 2003. NOW AVAILABLE
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Conversations
on Russia (forthcoming).
The book contains my interviews with eminent Russian and Western policy makers among them Yegor Gaidar, Boris Nemtsov, Anatoly Chubais, Sergei Dubinin (the former central bank chairman under whose watch the ruble collapsed), Dmitri Vasiliev (the former chairman of the Russian securities and exchange commission; Martin Malia (the distinguished historian), George Soros, Strobe Talbott, Michel Camdessus (to be interviewed), David Remnick (to be interviewed) and Grigory Yavlinsky (to be interviewed). The book will have an in-depth introduction by me. 2003. |
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