Article: “The East European Revolution of 1989: Is It Surprising that We Were Surprised?”

1990-1999, Preference falsification, Social mechanisms

“The East European Revolution of 1989: Is It Surprising that We Were Surprised?” American Economic Review, 81 (May 1991): 121-125. Abstract

  • Reprint in David Kennett and Mark Lieberman (eds.), The Road to Capitalism: Economic Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992): 332-338.
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