ne of my favorite economists is Yegor T. Gaidar, a former Communist who struggled hard in the 1980s and 1990s to turn Russia into a capitalist country. Gaidar, 53, died Dec. 16 of a blood clot.
Yegor T. Gaidar: R.I.P.
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9 responses to “Yegor T. Gaidar: R.I.P.”
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Do you have a link to the interview that was done in 1993?
It would also be interesting to read about his opinions of "Shock Therapy".
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Sorry, I don't have a link. But go to businesweek.com and look under archives for the week of Oct. 3, 1993. Gidar's comments were included in the cover we did. I can't remember if we did a stand-alone Q&A. Those were truly wild days.
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It's apt that a man who did so much to lower the life expectancy of the Russian male to the 50s once again worked to that end by dying at age 52…
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Wow. I never heard of Yegor T. Gaidar. It's always amazing to me what goes on in Europe without many in the US knowing about it. Here's another effort in Europe which few Americans know exists:
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Hey Larry …
Give this a good listen. Then go to YouTube or RollingStone.Com and view or read everything Matt Taibi has said or written about the meltdown. He is right. And the Obama Administration has done nothing and is doing nothing about it.
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We will soon see whether Senators Warner and Webb care about Virginia first. The media reports that, as the price for Senator Ben Nelson's (D-NE) vote for health care reform, federal taxpayers will fund Nebraska's costs for the expansion of Medicaid in perpetuity. Putting aside the fact that one congress cannot bind future ones, how is this fair to the rest of the country?
Governor Kaine claims that Medicaid costs are a major source of the State's fiscal problems. No thinking Senator from any other state, most especially Virginia, should vote for this unfair money grab. What will Warner and Webb do?
TMT
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TMT:
Webb and Warner will do no more than put even more of their lip prints on Harry Reid's butt. If you look up Useless in the dictionary you'll see Webb's picture, if you look up Wothless you'll see Warner.
Webb is the born fighter that can't summon the political courage to take a single concrete step to help his constituents. Warner is the brilliant businessman and fiscal conservative who blindly follows Barack O Claus down the chimney with another "purchased on credit" present that we neither want nor can afford.
We started sweeping out the Democraps last November. We need to coninue this next November (remember, you can't spell Connolly with a Con). Then, in 2012 we get the big chance to send the Ombomination back to Illinois (retirement home for corrupt politicians) and we get to send Webb back the bizzarre-o-land from whence he came.
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Anonymous 2:44
It is ridiculous, not to mention arrogant as hell, to blame Gaidar for the low life expectancy of the Russians. Who the hell do you think you are? Doubt you know much outside of your neighborhood.
Peter Galuszka
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My adventures in the Soviet Union created a unique opportunity to build a telephone company in Russia just before and during Gaidar’s time at the economic helm. My friend Paul Tatum and I would on occasion meet with Gaidar and after some time felt I could call Gaidar a friend. I can say it was my feeling that Gaidar was the mouse who roared logic and saved Russia – but in the end was completely misunderstood. Russia survived that time of insanity because of levelheaded – educated individuals like Yegor T. Gaidar.
I feel America could use such logic just now at her similar place in history – this time of insanity. But the declining Soviet Union had one up on America during that similar period. The Soviet Union had left behind a region populated by perhaps the most educated peoples on the planet. But it would seem here in America few willing to see that the falling sky is our own making. I’m not very smart – but it seems to me that most of America’s problems stem from the fact that in general the tendency has been to shun education and intelligence and has for some time promoted just the opposite. We live in interesting times.
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