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Articles in
Professional Journals:
"A
Short-term Planning Model for the Indian Economy," Review of Economics and Statistics, June 1961.
The
Development of the Indian Economy - An
Exercise in Economic Planning," Oxford Economics Papers, November 1963.
Alternative
Measures of Import Substitution," Oxford Economic Papers, November 1969.
"Soviet
Industrial Production: Estimates of Gross Outputs by Branches and
Groups," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Summer 1973.
"Third
World Social Scientists in Santiago," World
Development, Vol. 1, No. 9, 1973.
"Comparative
Economic Performance of India and China: A Comment," American Economic Review, June 1975.
"Socialism
and Indian Economic Policy"
(jointly with J. Bhagwati), presented at the 1974 AEA meetings and
published in World Development, June
1975.
"The
Production Function and Technical Change in Postwar Soviet Industry: A Reexamination," American Economic Review, March 1976.
"On
Reconstructing Price, Output and Value‑Added Indexes in Soviet Industry
and Its Branches in the Postwar Period,"
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and
Statistics, February 1978.
"The
Productivity of Foreign Resource Inflow to the Soviet Economy," American Economic Review, May 1979.
"The
Rate of Return on Foreign Capital Inflow to the Soviet Economy" in Soviet
Economy in a Time of Change, Vol. 2, Joint Economic Committee of the United
States Congress, Washington, D.C., 1987.
"Three
Alternative Concepts of Foreign Exchange Difficulties in Centrally Planned
Economies," (jointly with J.
Bhagwati), Oxford Economic Papers,
November 1975.
"Total
Factor Productivity in Postwar Soviet Industry and its Branches," Journal of Comparative Economics, March
1975.
"The
Efficiency Loss from Resource Misallocation in Soviet Industry," (jointly
with Ricardo Martin), Quarterly Journal
of Economics, 1983.
"Soviet
Grain and Wheat Import Demands in 1981‑1985," American
Journal of Agricultural Economics,
May 1982.
"Reforming
the Soviet Grain Economy: Performance, Problems and Solutions," American Economic Review, May 1992.
"From
the Soviet Union to the Commonwealth of Independent States: The Aid Debate:
Harriman Institute FORUM, April 1992.
"A
Comment on Production Efficiency and Agricultural Reform in Ukraine," American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
May 1994.
"Aftershock
in Russia's Economy," Current
History, 93 (585), October 1994.
"Beyond
Shock Therapy," Journal of Democracy,
April 1995.
"Russian
Privatization: A Comparative Perspective," The Harriman Review, August 1995.
"The
Soviet Bloc and the Soviet Union: Why Did They Fall Apart?” The Harriman
Review, Summer 1997.
"Distribution
and Growth During Transition,” symposium in Economic
Systems, March 1998.
"Macroeconomic
Fragility and Exchange Rate Vulnerability: A Cautionary Record of Transition
Economies,” Journal of Comparative
Economics (26), December 1998.
"Russia’s
Economy under a Cloud,” forthcoming in a symposium in French in a new journal
started by Jacques Fotanale, Faculte des
Sciences Economiques, Grenoble, France.
"The
Russian Enigma: Why Hasn’t Financial Meltdown
Produced a Societal
Breakdown?” The Harriman Review: Special Number, December 1998.
"Russian
Reform: What Went Wrong?" The
Harriman Review: Special Number, June 1999.
"Interview
with Anatoly Chubais," The Harriman
Review: volume 12, numbers 2-3, Winter 1999/2000.
"A
Russian Optimist: Interview with Yegor Gaidar." Challenge, May-June,
2000
"History
Lessons: An interview with Martin Malia." Problems of Post Communism, November/December, 2000.
"Russia:
Why Did the Ruble Collapse in August 1998?" American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, May 2000.
"Industrial
Licensing Policy in India,"
reprinted in Pramit Chaudhuri (ed.), Aspects
of Indian Economic Development, London: Allen & Unwin, 1971.
"Alternative
Measures of Import Substitution," reprinted in C. Wadhwa (ed.), Some
Problems of India's Economic Policy, Bombay: Tata-McGraw Hill, 1973.
"Women
in Indian Elections" (jointly with J. Bhagwati), Chapter 3 in Myron Weiner
and John Field (ed.), Studies in Indian
Elections, Vol. 2, 1974.
"Participation
of Women in the Economies of Developing and Developed Countries, Ways of
Recognizing Their Contribution to National Income and Strategies for Ensuring
Their Economic Independence in Developing Countries." Paper commissioned by the United Nations and
incorporated in the UN Secretariat
Document for the International
Women's Year Conference in Mexico City, July 1975.
"Technical
Change, Factor Elasticity of
Substitution and Returns to Scale in Branches of Soviet Industry in the
Postwar Period," in F.L. Altmann,
O. Kyn and H.J. Wagener (eds.),On the
Measurement of Factor Productivities:
Theoretical Problems and Empirical Results (Papers and Proceedings of the
2nd Reisensburg Symposium), Gottingen:
Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1976.
"Wirtschaftliche
Entwicklung in Historischer Perspektive und Entwicklungsforschung," in
Khusi M. Khan und Volker Matthies (eds.), Hilfswissenschaft
fur die Dritte Welt oder Wissenschaftsimperialismus?, Institut fur Allgemeine Uberseeforschung,
Munchen: Weltforum Verlag, 1976.
"Science
and Technology in India: Their Role in National Development, A Comment,"
in John W. Mellor (ed.), India: A Rising Middle Power, Boulder: Westview Press, 1979.
"Measuring
Resource‑allocational Efficiency in Centrally Planned Economies: A
Theoretical Analysis," (jointly with Ricardo Martin) in Padma Desai (ed.),
Marxism, Central Planning, and the Soviet
Economy: Economic Essays in Honor of Alexander Erlich, Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1983.
"Internal
Policy Decisions and Food Import Demand in Centrally Planned Economies - A
Comment," in Food Import Demand in
Low-Income, Middle-Income, and Centrally Planned Countries, Proceedings of
the Trade Research Consortium Meeting organized by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, 1981.
"The
Soviet Union and the Third World: A Faltering Partnership?," in J.
Bhagwati and John Ruggie (eds.), Power,
Passions and Purpose: Retrospect and Prospect in NorthSouth Negotiations,
Cambridge: The MIT Press, Spring 1984.
"Russian
Reform, G-7 Aid, and IMF Monitoring: Marshall Plan Lessons," in
Proceedings of the Conference on the End of the Soviet Empire and its Influence
on the Future of the Global Monetary and Economic System organized by the
Robert Triffin-Szirak Foundation, 1994.
"Beyond
Shock Therapy," in Economic Reform
and Democracy by Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner (eds.), Baltimore: The
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
"Shock
Therapy and After: Prospects for Russian Reform," in Michael Kraus and
Ronald D. Liebowitz (eds.), Russia and
Eastern Europe After Communism: The Search for New Political, Economic, and
Security Systems, Boulder: Westview
Press, 1996.
"Russia's
Transition Toward the World Economy: Is There a Market Mechanism?" in
Padma Desai (ed.), Going Global:
Transition from Plan to Market in the World Economy, Cambridge: The MIT
Press, 1997.
"Introduction"
in Padma Desai (ed.), Going Global:
Transition from Plan to Market in the World Economy, Cambridge: The MIT
Press, 1997.
Publications
in the Print Media and Magazines:
"The
Economics of Grain Deal," Letters to
the Editor, The Wall Street Journal,
October 4, 1982.
"Technology
Transfer for Mutual Gain," The New
York Times, Sunday, February 10, 1985.
"Trade
and Credits with Soviet Union Are Near," Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, Sunday, January 15, 1989.
"Soviet
Farm Plan: Gorbachev Takes Chinese Lessons," The Wall Street Journal, editorial-page article, March 27, 1989.
"Benefits
of Soviet Entry Into Tariff System,"
Letters to the Editor, The New
York Times, October 9, 1989.
"If
We Don't Give Gorbachev Help, Europe Will," Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, Sunday, July 22, 1990.
"Making
a Virtue of Moscow's Necessity," (with J. Bhagwati), The New York Times, op-ed article, November 12, 1990.
"Aiding
Moscow: The Quid Pro Quo Approach," Letters
to the Editor, The New York Times, May 28, 1991.
"Principles
on Which a Realistic Plan to Rescue Perestroika Would Depend," Letters
to the Editor, Financial Times, May 28, 1991.
"Modest
Steps Can Rescue a Great Empire," Sunday Focus, op. ed. in New York,
Newsday, Sunday, June 9, 1991.
"Keeping
the Soviet Economy Under Control," The
New York Times, op-ed article, October 5, 1991.
"Responses
to Lenin Nyet! The Revolution that Failed," The New Leader,
November 4-18, 1991,
"No
Cinderella Story for Russian Economy,"
Letters to the Editor, The New
York Times, Sunday, January 19, 1992.
"A
Fistful of Rubles," book review of What
Is To Be Done?, Merton J. Peck and Thomas J. Richardson (eds.), (New Haven:
Yale University Press), The New York
Times BOOK REVIEW, April 12, 1992.
"Whatever
Yeltsin's Fate, Russia Can't Go Back," Letters
to the Editor, The New York Times, March 25, 1993.
"Lend
Russia Money and a Tough Accountant," Letters
to the Editor, The New York Times, July 7, 1993.
"Ease
Up on Russia," op-ed article in The
New York Times, December 10, 1993.
"Opening
the Door: Sachs Sacked," Letters to
the Editor, The New Republic,
February 28, 1994.
"A
Cure for Russia's Ills that is Marred by Errors of Analysis," Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, April 6, 1994.
"Confused
Thinking about Russian `Gradualism'" Letters
to the Editor, Financial Times,
April 19, 1994.
"Is
it Springtime for Moscow?" Letters to the Editor, The New York Times,
April 19, 1994.
"No
Megabucks and No Miracles: Russia and Western Aid," European Brief, (The Independent Commentary on European Affairs),
April/May 1994.
"Gradualism--What
Makes the Reform Tick in Russia," Forum
piece in The World Bank TRANSITION,
May-June, 1994.
"Russia:
A New Place to Invest," The Journal
of Commerce, September 26, 1994.
"Will
1995 Stabilize Russia's Economy?" in U.S.
Relations with Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe, Conference Report of the
Aspen Institute, 1995.
"West
Didn't Fail Russian Market Reform," Letters
to the Editor, The New York Times,
January 14, 1996.
"IMF
Should Sustain Support of Russian Recovery," Letters to the Editor, Financial
Times, February 1, 1996.
"Shock
Therapy is an Unwise Choice,” Letters to
the Editor, The Financial Times, March 20, 1997.
"Chubais'
Promising Start,” The Journal of Commerce,
March 21, 1997.
"U.S.
Mustn’t Meddle in Russian Politics,” Letters
to the Editor, The New York Times, March 23, 1997.
Speedy
Reforms Pay Off, but Social Costs Must be Considered,” in The World Bank TRANSITION, August 1997.
"Russia's
Rugged Road to Reform,” op. ed. in The
Journal of Commerce, September 8, 1997.
"India's
False Alarms,” Personal View Column, The
Financial Times, May 1, 1998.
"Russia
Should Offer Gazprom Stake for Funding,” Letters
to the Editor, The Financial Times, June 18, 1998.
"Sensible
Legislation for Russian Reform Systematically Rejected,” Letters to the Editor, The Financial Times, July 10, 1998.
"Don't
Expect Russia to Fend for Itself,” Letters
to the Editor, The New York Times, September 4, 1998.
"Firm
but Feasible Regime for an Obese Patient," Letters to the Editor, The Financial Times, July 15, 1999.
"For
Sure, Shock Therapy Failed": Response to "Who Lost Russia?" Letters, The New York Times MAGAZINE, September 5, 1999.
"The
Policy Behind the Exodus of Russian Money," Letters to the Editor, The New York Times, September 7, 1999.
"The
Soviet Ghost in Russia's Machine," Op--ed,
The Financial Times, August 11, 2000.
"Putin's
Bluff," Personal View, The Financial Times, June 21, 2001.
"Gerashchenko
successor's hard choices," Letters to the Editor, The Financial
Times, March 20, 2002.
"Help Russia to graduate," The Financial
Times, July 10, 2002.
"Russia should liberalise before WTO accession," The Financial
Times, July 17, 2002.
"Russia compared unfairly with China," The Financial
Times, July 22, 2002.
"Pity the Russian Voter," Opinion, The Wall Street Journal,
September 26, 2003.