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Alexander Nove

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Alexander Nove · Economics & Business

What

Economist

When

1915, Petrograd, Russia — 1994, London, United Kingdom

Where

Russia · United Kingdom

Biography

Alexander Nove is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Economist

How & why

Alexander Nove was a Russian-born British economist and Sovietologist, professor at the University of Glasgow, whose works 'The Economics of Feasible Socialism' and 'An Economic History of the USSR' became standard references on the Soviet economy. He analyzed the workings and failures of central planning. Nove was Jewish, born Alexander Novakovsky to a Jewish family in Petrograd.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Economists