Michael John Ellman (born 27 July 1942,
Ripley, Surrey
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) has been a
professor
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of
economics
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at the
University of Amsterdam
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since 1978. He is now an ''
emeritus professor
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''. He has written on the
economics of the Soviet Union,
transition economics
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Transition economies undergo a set of structural transformations intended to develop market-based institutions. ...
,
Russia
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and
comparative economic systems
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.
Prizes and honours
* Foreign member (academician) of the
Russian Academy of Economic Sciences and Entrepreneurship.
* Awarded the 1998
Kondratieff prize for his "contribution to the development of the social sciences" by the
International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation.
"Author: Michael Ellman,"
Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 15.05.2015.
Selected works
* ''Planning Problems in the USSR: The contribution of mathematical methods to their solution'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
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, 1973). (Italian edition 1979, Hungarian translation for internal official use 1970s, Russian translation for internal official use 1970s.)
* ''Socialist Planning'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1st ed. 1979, 2nd ed. 1989, 3rd ed. 2014).
* "Did the agricultural surplus provide the resources for the increase in investment in the USSR during the First Five Year Plan?," ''Economic Journal
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'' (December 1975). (Russian translation Voprosy ekonomiki January 1992.)
* "Transformation, depression and economics: some lessons," ''Journal of Comparative Economics
The ''Journal of Comparative Economics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies. It was established in 1977 and the editors-in-chief are Ruben Enikolopov ( ...
'' (August 1994). Reprinted in P.G.Hare & J.R.Davis (eds) ''Transition to the market economy'' (London: Routledge, 1997), vol.1.
* with V.Kontorovich (eds), ''The destruction of the Soviet economic system: an insiders' history'' (New York: M.E.Sharpe, 1998).
* "The 1947 Soviet famine and the entitlement approach to famines," ''Cambridge Journal of Economics
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'' (September 2000).
* (editor) ''Russia’s oil and natural gas: Bonanza or curse?'' (London: Anthem, 2006).
Sources
Homepage at the University of Amsterdam (''Accessed August 2010'')
Michael Ellman
Policy Innovations: a publication of Carnegie Council
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.
External links
Prof. Michael Ellman
References
1942 births
Living people
British economists
N. D. Kondratieff Medal laureates
Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam
Alumni of the London School of Economics
People from the Borough of Guildford
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