Normal Countries

The East 25 Years After Communism

By: Andrei M. Shleifer, Daniel Treisman

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, critics say postcommunist reforms have failed. But the evidence says otherwise. Transition states in Europe and Eurasia have become normal countries - no worse, and sometimes better, than other states at comparable levels of development.

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