Macroeconomic Monitor
Начало / 2015 / ноември

2015.11

Shocking inequality

Brian Kaplan* I have just finished the unpublished collection Inequality and Economic Policy: Essays in Honor of Gary Becker, edited by Tom Church, Chris Miller, and John Taylor. For me, the most striking part of the text is John Korhane’s on inequality: “The most mysterious thing is why left critics focus on the one percent in …

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Is the transition over?

Today we mark 26 years since the fall of the communist regime and the start of the so-called transition. What is happening on this day – in short, due to the crumbling socio-economic system in the USSR and the Eastern Bloc, the socialist economies can no longer live on artificial respiration and, driven by Gorbachev's perestroika, …

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