The author, Professor of Economics at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and consultant to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, contends that despite the favorable social and economic position of Russian economists, the best students do not choose to enter the field of economics, and the training which Russian economists receive is inferior to that of their American counterparts because of the stress placed upon political indoctrination.
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References
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Nicholas De Witt, "Education and Professional Employment in the U.S.S.R." (NSF 61-40), National Science Foundation (Washington: U.S.
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Government Printing Office, 1961), pp. 368-69.
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A complete description of the aspirantura program is found on pp 381-83, op. cit.
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A complete description of the doctoral program is found on pp. 384-86, op. cit.
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Ralph H. Blodgett and Martin Schnitzer, "Soviet Teaching and Research in Economics ," Bulletin I965, 2 (Office of Education, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964 ), p. 16.
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Ibid., p. 16.
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"Current Economic Indicators for the U.S.S.R." ( Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, June, 1965), p. 137.
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See DeWitt , op. cit, p. 543
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; Edmund Nash. "Purchasing Power of Workers in the U.S.S.R," Monthly Labor Review (Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, April 1960), p. 362.
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Several Russian experts, including Dr. Leon Herman of the Library of Congress, affirm this estimate.
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Elections to the Academy of Sciences were held in 1963. The same relationship held for economists.
