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Russia's Resource Curse
Date:
November 19, 2009
Time:
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location:
206 Ingraham Hall
Phone:
608-265-8038
Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA)
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Overview:
Drawing on materials prepared for the 2009 EBRD Transition Report, Professor Sonin will discuss the political and economic issues of Russia’s resources in the energy sector.
Speaker Biography:
Konstantin Sonin is the SUEK Professor of Economics at the New Economic School/CEFIR in Moscow. His research interests include political economics and applied theory. He earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Moscow State University in 1998, was a postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard from 2000 through 2001, and a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 2004 to 2005. Professor Sonin writes a biweekly column on economic and political affairs, which appears in Russian in Vedomosti, the leading Russian business daily, and in English in the Moscow Times. Also, he is a regular contributor to the Russian edition of SmartMoney magazine, as well as to other Russian printed and electronic media.
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