Gregory Grossman (July 5, 1921, Kiev – August 14, 2014Economist, Soviet scholar Gregory Grossman dies at 93
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, an authority on the

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.Authority on Soviet economy, Gregory Grossman, passes away
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in 1991. The term "command economy" was introduced in his seminal 1963 article ''Notes for a Theory of the Command Economy''. The term "second economy" was introduced in his another article, ''The Second Economy of the USSR'' (1977).

Publications

*Grossman, G. 1963: Notes for a theory of the Command Economy. Soviet Studies XV(2): 101–123. *Grossman, G. 1977: The second economy of the USSR. Problems of Communism. September—October, reprinted. In: Tanzi, V (ed). The Underground Economy in the United States and Abroad. Lexington: Lexington, MA.

References

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