Prof. Kontorovich - Research

My published work is listed in my CV.

Here I post the papers that have remained unpublished, as well as the drafts of the papers on which I am currently working. 

POST-COMMUNIST TRANSFORMATION

“Why Soviet Conversion Program Doesn’t Make Sense” (with Boris Rumer), presented at the Allied Social Sciences meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 1992.

"The Importance of Not Being a Great Power", February 1994.

"New Business Creation and Russian Economic Recovery", presented at the ACES Meeting, Chicago, Jan. 1998.

“The Russian Far East and the Social Sciences”, presented at the 34th National Convention of the AAASS, Pittsburgh, Nov. 24, 2002.

SOVIET ECONOMY, SOVIETOLOGY, AND COLLAPSE

“Where did the Sputnik Come From?,“ presented at the AAASS convention in New Orleans, LA, Nov. 16, 2007.

“Appendix Tables and Bibliography for "Where did the Sputnik Come From?"

“Economists and the Collapse”, 1996

“What Do Bosses in Command Economies Do”, presented at the II SSRC Summer Workshop on Soviet and East European Economics, Urbana, IL, July 1986.

"Economic System and the Valuation of National Income", 1998.

"Economists, Soviet economic reforms, and the collapse", 2001.