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Y376 International Political Economy

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Y376 International Political Economy

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  1. Ipe14 Y376 International Political Economy October 27, 2009

  2. 3. Comparative Economic Sizes, in Current Billions of Dollars, 1995

  3. 4. Key Issues <ul><li>Why did the Cold War end? </li></ul><ul><li>What were the different political and economic strategies being pursued by the transition economies? </li></ul><ul><li>How successful were these strategies? </li></ul><ul><li>What general lessons can be learned from the above? </li></ul>

  4. 5. The End of the Cold War <ul><li>The desire to end Stalinist oppression </li></ul><ul><li>Inability to keep up with the United States and Western Europe economically and technologically </li></ul><ul><li>Errors of judgment on the part of Soviet leaders, e.g., </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Chernobyl </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Afghanistan </li></ul></ul>

  5. 6. Dissidents <ul><li>Andrei Sakharov </li></ul><ul><li>Nuclear Physicist </li></ul><ul><li>Father of Soviet hydrogen bomb </li></ul><ul><li>Human Rights advocate </li></ul>

  6. 7. Main Problems of Centrally Planned Economies in the 1980s <ul><li>Low growth rates </li></ul><ul><li>Low productivity growth rates </li></ul><ul><li>Slow diffusion of new technologies </li></ul><ul><li>Consumer shortages </li></ul><ul><li>Foreign currency shortages </li></ul><ul><li>Declining purchasing power of exports </li></ul>

  7. 8. Figure 10-2. Average Annual Growth in Real GNP in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1961-1985 Source: Central Intelligence Agency, Handbook of Economic Statistics 1988 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988), p. 33.

  8. 9. Slow Technology Diffusion Stalin with a Zil Automobile

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