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  • As for most aspects of economic policy in the 1990s, the biggest beneficiaries turn out to be the “red directors”—well-placed, soviet-era industrial managers.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The new investors would have to force out entrenched soviet-era managers and the criminal gangs that controlled marketing in some of the enterprises.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • As for most aspects of economic policy in the 1990s, the biggest beneficiaries turn out to be the “red directors”—well-placed, soviet-era industrial managers.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The new investors would have to force out entrenched soviet-era managers and the criminal gangs that controlled marketing in some of the enterprises.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The new investors would have to force out entrenched soviet-era managers and the criminal gangs that controlled marketing in some of the enterprises.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • As for most aspects of economic policy in the 1990s, the biggest beneficiaries turn out to be the “red directors”—well-placed, soviet-era industrial managers.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • It is up to the educators not to waste their students 'time with useless subjects or wildly outdated teaching methods, just as a physical trainer can't just make their customers run a marathon every time they show up or do some crazy soviet-era calisthenics that no modern athlete does anymore.

    Earth to Educators: People Hate School, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The new investors would have to force out entrenched soviet-era managers and the criminal gangs that controlled marketing in some of the enterprises.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • As for most aspects of economic policy in the 1990s, the biggest beneficiaries turn out to be the “red directors”—well-placed, soviet-era industrial managers.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • (To which I like to remind them that soviet-era bread pricing authorities felt much the same way!)

    Grist - the Latest from Grist 2010

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