RIP Yuri Maltsev

[Occam's Banana]

Yuri Maltsev - one of my favorite Mises Institute people - has died. :sorrow:

No details yet. just the below.

Yuri N. Maltsev
https://mises.org/profile/yuri-n-maltsev
Yuri N. Maltsev (1950–2023) was Professor of Economics at Carthage College in Wisconsin. He held various government and research positions in Moscow, Russia. Before defecting to the US in 1989, he was a member of a senior economics team that worked on President Gorbachev's reforms package of perestroika. Before settling in the Midwest, he was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. a US federal research agency. His work involved briefing members of Congress and senior officials at the executive branch on issues of national security and foreign economic and military assessment. He also testified before the US Congress and appeared on CNN, PBS News Hour, C-Span, CBC, and other American, Canadian, Spanish, South African, and Finnish television and radio programs. He authored and co-authored fifteen books and over a hundred articles. He was a recipient of the Luminary Award of the Free Market Foundation.

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[Occam's Banana]

You can find a listing of some of his work for/with the Mises Institute (articles/books/audio/video) here:


Yuri N. Maltsev (https://mises.org/profile/yuri-n-maltsev)


Here are some relevant threads/posts at RPFs:


The Decline and Fall of Gorbachev and the Soviet State
Aa Libertarian in the U.S.S.R - Lew Rockwell interviews Yuri Maltsev
Article: What Soviet Medicine Teaches Us
The Disaster of Socialized Medicine
[video] A Soviet Defector's Perspective on the Obama Administration - Dr. Yuri Maltsev
Ex-Soviet Economist on Comrade Hillary
Yuri Maltsev: Why Socialism Endures


Yuri Maltsev is one of the most underappreciated personages to come out of the Mises Institute.
No one is able to make socialism/Sovietism as horrifying and hilarious at the same time as Yuri Maltsev.

Here are some of my favorite Maltsev speeches:

Inflation and the Bolsheviks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj4P1DH7o-Q

What Soviet Agriculture Teaches Us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6KnqLEsXmE

Selling Liberty: National Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbPuINIqhEE

Too Big Not to Fail: Imperial Governments from Moscow to Washington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAxKAzpGmVA

Traveling Down the Road to Serfdom: History of Socialism from Marx to Obama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mb5555PCfU


Friedrich Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" was published 70 years ago (March 1944).

The following presentations regarding Hayek's classic were recorded at the Mises Institute's 2014 Austrian Economics Research Conference.

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Yuri N. Maltsev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4gL2HpKwzo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4gL2HpKwzo

[A Son of Liberty]

Requiescat en pace.

We can't afford to lose too many voices like his - survivors of Soviet communism who can tell us exactly what Marxism inevitably becomes...

[Anti Globalist]

RIP.