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8. ACCOUNTABILITY IN ECONOMIC ADVISING - Selected Works

Books

COLLISION AND COLLUSION: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave, 2001.

COLLISION AND COLLUSION: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989-1998, 1st edition, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's, 1998.

CONFRONTING CORRUPTION, BUILDING ACCOUNTABILITY: Lessons From the World Of International Development Advising. Resource Handbook, co-auth. with Lloyd J. Dumas and Greg Callman, Palgrave Macmillan, December 2010.

Scholarly Articles

"Reconstruction Aid to Ukraine: What we know (or should know) from the history of 1990s assistance to Eastern Europe," VOX EU, June 14, 2023; VOX Ukraine

"Globalisation's Freelancers, Democracy's Decline: The Case of Harvard, the Chubais Clan, and U.S. Aid to Russia." In Globalisation in Practice, Nigel Thrift, Adam Tickell, and Steve Woolgar, eds., Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2013.

"What Russia Can Learn from China in Its Transition to a Market Economy" (with Michael D. Intriligator and Catherine H. Lee).  In Clumsy Solutions in a Complex World: Governance, Politics, and Plural Perceptions, Marco Verweij and Michael Thompson, eds.  Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 105-131.

Newspaper & Magazine Articles

"Harvard’s Role in U.S. Aid to Russia." In The Boston Globe, March 25, 2006, p. A15. 

"Who Taught Crony Capitalism to Russia?"  In The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2001. 

"Tainted Transactions: Harvard, the Chubais Clan and Russia's Ruin."  In The National Interest, no. 59, Spring 2000, pp. 23-34.
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"Tainted Transactions: An Exchange. Jeffrey Sachs, Anders Aslund, Janine Wedel. Wedel Replies. "  In The National Interest, no. 60, Summer 2000, pp. 107-110.
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"Wedel Replies." In The National Interest, no. 61, Fall 2000, pp. 120-121.
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"How the Chubais Clan, Harvard Fed Corruption."  In Los Angeles Times, September 12, 1999, p. M1.

"The Harvard Boys Do Russia:  How the Best and Brightest Helped Destroy the Russian Economy."  In The Nation, June 1, 1998, pp. 11-16 (cover story).

"Abuse of Trust: U.S., Russia, and Harvard."  In The Boston Globe, Thursday, May 29, 1997, p. A15.

"Getting it Right in Aid to Russia."  In The New York Times (FORUM, Sunday Business Section).  April 5, 1992.

"Polish Officials Sour on U.S. Aid Approach."  In The Christian Science Monitor, March 2, 1992.

"Beware Western Governments Bearing Gifts."  In The Wall Street Journal Europe, January 14, 1992.

"The Economist Heard around the World."  In World Monitor, October 1990 (cover story).

Policy Articles

"Harvard's 'Best and Brightest' Aided Russia's Economic Ruin.”  In Extra: The Magazine of FAIR -- The Media Watch Group, vol. 13, no. 1, January/February 2000, pp. 19-20.

Testimony (written and oral) on "U.S. Assistance to Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union."  U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East.  April 7, 1992.

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