>Actually, Matthew Evangelista has established that the Star Wars
>hoax did not induce the Soviets to increase military expenditures.
>Soviet growth rates are a vexed matter. Your statement of the matter
>represents the normal view as of, say, 1985, and it still may be
>right, but there were other figures that suggest that things were
>worse than was usually understood, particularly if oil revenues are
>left aside. as usual with planned economies, no good and accurate
>information was available.
>
>--jks
"... as usual with planned economies, no good and accurate
information was available." Oh, that's cruel! Oh, that's mean! I'm
going to have to remember that.
May I purchase intellectual property rights to use that sentence?
Brad DeLong
