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RIP Yuri Maltsev

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Yuri Maltsev - one of my favorite Mises Institute people - has died. :sorrow:

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Yuri N. Maltsev
https://mises.org/profile/yuri-n-maltsev
Yuri N. Maltsev (1950–2023) was Professor of Economics at Carthage College in Wisconsin. He held various government and research positions in Moscow, Russia. Before defecting to the US in 1989, he was a member of a senior economics team that worked on President Gorbachev's reforms package of perestroika. Before settling in the Midwest, he was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. a US federal research agency. His work involved briefing members of Congress and senior officials at the executive branch on issues of national security and foreign economic and military assessment. He also testified before the US Congress and appeared on CNN, PBS News Hour, C-Span, CBC, and other American, Canadian, Spanish, South African, and Finnish television and radio programs. He authored and co-authored fifteen books and over a hundred articles. He was a recipient of the Luminary Award of the Free Market Foundation.

https://twitter.com/mises/status/1618648077849735168
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Requiescat en pace.

We can't afford to lose too many voices like his - survivors of Soviet communism who can tell us exactly what Marxism inevitably becomes...
 
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