Paul R. Gregory

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Biography: 

Paul Gregory is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He holds an endowed professorship in the Department of Economics at the University of Houston, Texas, is a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin, and is emeritus chair of the International Advisory Board of the Kiev School of Economics. Gregory has held visiting teaching appointments at Moscow State University, Viadrina University, and the Free University of Berlin. He blogs on national and international economic topics at http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/ and http://paulgregorysblog.blogspot.com/.

The holder of a PhD in economics from Harvard University, he is the author or coauthor of twelve books and more than one hundred articles on economic history, the Soviet economy, transition economies, comparative economics, and economic demography. Gregory’s economics papers have been published in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Economic History, and the Journal of Comparative Economics.  His most recent books are Women of the Gulag: Portraits of Five Remarkable Lives (Hoover Institution Press, 2013), Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina (Hoover Institution Press, 2010), Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives (Hoover Institution Press, 2008), Terror by Quota (Yale, 2009), and The Political Economy of Stalinism (Cambridge, 2004), which won the Hewett Prize. He edited The Lost Transcripts of the Politburo (Yale, 2008), Behind the Façade of Stalin's Command Economy (Hoover, 2001), and The Economics of Forced Labor: The Soviet Gulag (Hoover, 2003). The work of his Hoover Soviet Archives Research Project team is summarized in "Allocation under Dictatorship: Research in Stalin's Archive" (coauthored with Hoover fellow Mark Harrison), published in the Journal of Economic Literature.

Gregory has also published The Global Economy and Its Economic Systems (Cengage, 2013) and is working with director Marianna Yarovskaya on a film documentary entitled Women of the Gulag.

Gregory also served on the editorial board of the seven-volume Gulag documentary series entitled The History of the Stalin Gulag, published jointly by the Hoover Institution and the Russian Archival Service. He also serves or has served on the editorial boards of Comparative Economic Studies, Slavic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, Problems of Post-Communism, and Explorations in Economic History.

His research papers are available at the Hoover Institution Archives.

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Under Russia's New Extremism Laws, Liking My Writings On Ukraine Could Mean Jail Terms

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Forbes
Monday, August 29, 2016

On July 7, 2016, Vladimir Putin signed into law the so-called Yarovaya Amendment to Russia’s anti-extremism laws. The amendment assigns sweeping new powers to security forces, beefs up controls of social media and telephone calls, and broadens the definition of extremism crimes.

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Could Putin Leak Incriminating Hillary Clinton Emails As An October Surprise?

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Forbes
Sunday, August 21, 2016

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is warning her colleagues that Russian hackers may release fake or doctored documents as part of an October cyber surprise to embarrass Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. 

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What Infrastructure Crisis?

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Defining Ideas
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Despite what Clinton and Trump may say, the United States does not need more publicly-funded projects. 

Unfortunately, There’s Nothing Unusual About Manafort’s Ukraine Consulting

by Paul R. Gregory
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Doing business with shady Slavs is routine for K Street bottom feeders of both parties.

Hillary’s Two Years of Financial Hardship in the Top Five Percent

by Paul R. Gregory
Monday, August 15, 2016

The New York Times’s Strained Finances Left Clinton Juggling Necessity and Ideals seeks to explain why “despite choosing a life in government, she [Hillary Clinton] has appeared eager to make money, driven to provide for her family and helping amass a fortune of more than $50 million.” Expressed in less gentile terms, the Times asks: Why does Hillary grub for money in risky ways that jeopardize her life of public service?

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Do Alternative Estimates Show China Entering A Period Of Stagnation?

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Forbes
Monday, August 15, 2016

The media have largely ignored the alternative estimates of Chinese growth of the Conference Board. These calculations (discussed below) claim that China’s growth has been overstated by some thirty percent over the reform era, that it has averaged around five percent for the past five years, and is little different or lower than the two large Asian Tigers (Taiwan and South Korea) during their thirty years of rapid growth starting in 1960. 

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DNC Data Dump Gives Putin A Two-For-One Win

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Forbes
Monday, July 25, 2016

Wikileak’s release of 19,252 emails from the accounts of Democratic National Committee (DNC) officials constitutes Hillary Clinton’s rude introduction to Vladimir Putin’s hybrid warfare. 

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Trump, Deferring To Putin, Deleted GOP Platform's Call To Supply Ukraine With Lethal Defensive Weapons

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Forbes
Monday, July 18, 2016

According to multiple accounts, the Trump campaign has successfully worked behind the scenes to make sure the new Republican platform would not pledge the lethal defensive weapons Ukraine has been pleading for from the United States. 

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Hillary Clinton's Emails: The Missing Point

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Forbes
Saturday, July 9, 2016

The New York Times has concluded that Hillary’s server was most likely hacked along with the accounts of her inner circle. The Times does not note, however, that the breach of Clinton’s email would have taken place before the scrubbing of 30,000 emails she deemed “private.” It is this cache of destroyed emails that pose the greatest remaining threat to Mrs. Clinton.

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How Benghazi Can Still Hurt Hillary Clinton

by Paul R. Gregoryvia Forbes
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

The Republican members of the House Select Committee on Benghazi released their report yesterday to a storm of media bias. CNN’s banner headline running under the press conference read “House Committee finds no wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton.” The New York Times worded it differently: “House Benghazi Report Finds No New Evidence of Wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton.” Does this rule out old evidence of wrongdoing?

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