Along with its political tyranny, Soviet history is a record of economic deprivation. Western analysts failed to see this for the longest time, however, because of the ideological and methodological blinders they wore.

Peter J. Boettke is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University.
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