Philip HansonPHILIP HANSON is professor of Soviet economics at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is the author of several books on the Soviet economy and East-West trade, of journal articles in Soviet Studies, Soviet Economy, The Journal of Comparative Economics, European Economic Review and elsewhere, and of press articles for the Financial Times, Times (London), Independent, and Wall Street Journal. Hanson has been a visiting professor of economics at the University of Michigan and a senior Mellon fellow at Harvard University's Russian Research Center. Read More Read Less