What Actually Happened Right After The Soviet Union Collapsed
14 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
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What Life in the Soviet Union Was Like
29 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
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The Velvet Revolution and Breakup of Czechoslovakia
28 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
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Re-Absorbing East Germany After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
25 Nov 2021 Leave a comment
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The mistake that toppled the Berlin Wall
17 Jun 2021 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: Berlin wall, East Germany, fall of communism, unintended consequences
#OTD @AOC @jeremycorbyn @BernieSanders @SenWarren
26 Dec 2020 Leave a comment
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The Last Ditch Attempt to Save the USSR – August Coup of 1991 #OTD
19 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
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.@AOC @BernieSanders @SenWarren @Greens @NZGreens @oxfamnz
31 May 2020 Leave a comment
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Milton Friedman – Economic Transition in Eastern Europe – George Shultz, George Stigler
08 May 2020 Leave a comment
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Is @BernieSanders right? Is there a difference between socialism and communism?
24 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, growth disasters, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, privatisation, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: economics of central planning, fall of communism, regressive left, The fatal conceit
Russian mates would sometimes be paid in dollars, sometimes local currency and sometimes not at all but still show up to work (as creditor in possession?)
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
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when four millennials traveled to Cuba recently to investigate socialism
08 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, growth disasters, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, property rights, Public Choice, theory of the firm Tags: Cuba, economics of central planning, fall of communism
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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