Vladimer Papava

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Post-Communist Capitalism and the Theory of the Dead Economy

05/15/2006 Mises Daily Vladimer Papava

After fifteen years of economic transformation we can conclude that the transitional period in post-Communist countries has ended, but unfortunately the economic (and not only economic) systems of...

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