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Economic Reform In Three Giants: U.S. Foreign Policy And The U.S.S.R., China, And India

Edited by Richard E. Feinberg, John Echeverri-Gent and Friedemann Muller
Reviewed by By William Diebold, Jr.
Fall 1990
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Edited by Richard E. Feinberg, John Echeverri-Gent and Friedemann Muller
Transaction Books (for the Overseas Development Council)
1990
256 pp.
$24.95

"Size matters" but the other similarities of China, India and the Soviet Union are less clear-cut. A chapter on science and technology is the best addition this book makes to its exposition of the now rather familiar case for the interest the United States and other Western countries have in seeing successful reform of these economic systems.

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