James Robert Millar (1936 – November 30, 2008) was an American political scientist and economist. He was a renowned expert on the
Soviet economy
The economy of the Soviet Union was based on state ownership of the means of production, collective farming, and industrial manufacturing. An administrative-command system managed a distinctive form of central planning. The Soviet economy was ...
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A native of
San Antonio, Texas
("Cradle of Freedom")
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, Millar attended the
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...
, graduating in 1958. He went on to pursue a doctorate degree at
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...
, including a year spent as an exchange student at
Moscow State University
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
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The
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research awards the annual "James R. Millar Graduate Student Prize" for the best graduate student research paper in the humanities and social sciences regarding current or former communist regimes, in honor of Millar.
Professor Millar joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Economics
[University of Illinois Department of Economics faculty archives https://economics.illinois.edu/spotlight/historical-faculty/james-r-millar] in 1965. He remained there until 1989 when he joined the faculty at George Washington University where he retired from in 2004. He died in 2008.
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Soviet Interview Project The Soviet Interview Project (SIP) was a research project conducted in the early 1980s. The project's principal aim was to learn about the life in the Soviet Union, which in turn would contribute to the disciplines of Sovietology, political science, ...
References
1936 births
2008 deaths
20th-century American economists
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Cornell University alumni
University of Illinois faculty
George Washington University faculty
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