Search Results

“... him: now he has left the Party and his views would be conventionally described as right-wing. Anders Aslund, the Swedish scholar-diplomat who in this book has given us the closest and best-informed investigation of the roots and progress of perestroika, has elsewhere signalled the rise to prominence of ‘political liberals’ such as ...”

“... the principal players in ‘the greatest corruption story in human history’, as the economist Anders Aslund puts it, include the fabled siloviki – the ‘heavies’: the army, the intelligence agencies etc – is the strongest sign of the absence of a hierarchy. In a hierarchy, local officials would answer to their Moscow superiors: but they ...”

“... faith vested in the Fund’s prescriptions, and those of Western advisers like Jeffrey Sachs and Anders Aslund, is immense. Since none of the ex-Soviet countries apart from Russia and the Balkan states has the capacity to develop and sustain an economic reform programme of its own, they must rely on the Fund and other agencies for what amounts to their ...”

“... out of hyperinflation, and has helped the Poles down the same route: but they also include Anders Aslund, a former Swedish diplomat turned professor who wrote what is still the best book on Gorbachev’s economic reforms, and who had spotted all the members of Gaidar’s group years before they became a team, and Richard Layard, an LSE professor ...”