lbo-talk-digest V1 #6119

ChrisD(RJ) chrisd at russiajournal.com
Thu May 9 03:17:08 PDT 2002


Doug wrote:

But during the perestroika days I met a few shock-therapy type economists who were passing through NYC (who seemed, by the way, quite convinced that a few years of their magic would turn Russia into a prosperous Third World country; they were completely uninterested in the story of mass poverty in NYC) -----------

Never underestimate the ability of the Russian intelligentsia to ignore reality.

Chris Doss The Russia Journal



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list