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Padma Desai

Padma Desai is Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems and Director, Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University.

Titles by This Author

Work Without Wages

Russia's Non-Payment Crisis
By Padma Desai and Todd Idson

The seventy-year-old Soviet tradition of "wages without work" soon turned into "work without wages" when the planned economy began switching to a market system in 1992. Lack of budget discipline, the breakdown of contractual obligations at all levels, and the failure of state agencies to enforce laws among businesses led to pervasive wage nonpayment to workers in both the public and private sectors.

Titles by This Editor

Going Global

Transition from Plan to Market in the World Economy
Edited by Padma Desai