An economic historian who traced the bureaucracy of Soviet planning
Paul R. Gregory is an American economic historian whose work examines the Russian and Soviet economies. Combining statistical analysis with interviews, he studied how Soviet bureaucracies and planners actually operated and helped preserve officials’ testimony through the Soviet Interview Project. His 2000 retrospective on the Soviet planned economy, co-authored with Yuri Olsevich, interpreted the Kosygin reform as an attempt to combine directive planning with profit incentives without resolving their institutional tension.
Career Timeline
- 1963B.A. in economics, University of Oklahoma
- 1964M.A. in Russian, University of Oklahoma
- 1969Ph.D. in economics, Harvard University
- 1969–1972Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Oklahoma
- 1972–현재Professor of Economics, University of Houston
- 1979–1988Principal investigator, Soviet Interview Project
- 1990Published Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy
- 2000Co-authored a retrospective study of the Soviet planned economy with Yuri Olsevich