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Paul R. Gregory

b. 1941

American economic historian and economist

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Born 1941. Paul R. Gregory is an American economic historian, economist and university teacher.

Paul Roderick Gregory (born 10 February 1941 in San Angelo, Texas) is a professor of economics at the University of Houston, Texas, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a research fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research. He has written about Russia and the Soviet Union.

He received his B.A. in 1963 and M.A. in 1964 from University of Oklahoma and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1969. Gregory's book Women of the Gulag inspired an Oscar-shortlisted film of the same name, directed by Marianna Yarovskaya.

Publications Women of the Gulag: Stories of Five Remarkable Lives, Hoover Institution Press, 2013 Histories of five women of diverse geographical, social, and ethnic origins: Agness Argipopulo, Maria Senotrusova, Evgenia Feigenberg, Adile Abbas-ogly, and Fekla Andreeva. Politics, Murder and Love in Stalin's Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina, Hoover Institution Press, 2010 Terror by Quota: State Security from Lenin to Stalin, Yale University Press, 2009 (co-editor) "ГУЛАГ: Экономика принудительного труда", Moscow, , 2008. Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives, Hoover Institution Press, 2008 The Political Economy of Stalinism, Cambridge University Press, 2004 (Ed A Hewett Book Prize) Russian and Soviet Economic Performance and Structure, Addison-Wesley, 2001, with Robert C. Stuart Principles of Macroeconomics, Addison-Wesley, 2001, 7th edition, with Roy J. Ruffin Before Command: An Economic History of Russia from Emancipation to First Five-years Plan, Princeton University Press, 1994 Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Russian National Income. 1885-1913, Cambridge University Press, 1982

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Economic historian, economist, university teacher
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University of Oklahoma, Harvard University
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University of Houston
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Paul Roderick Gregory

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American economic historian and economist

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Paul R. Gregory was born on 10 February 1941 in San Angelo.

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Paul R. Gregory is an economic historian, economist and university teacher.

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Paul R. Gregory is American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Paul R. Gregory

· Wikidata: Q2061744

· DBpedia: Paul Roderick Gregory

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