Michael Ellman
Michael John Ellman has been a professor of economics at the University of Amsterdam since 1978. He is now an emeritus professor. He has written on the economics of the Soviet Union, transition economics, Russia and comparative economic systems.
Prizes and honours
- Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Economic Sciences and Entrepreneurship.
- Awarded the 1998 Kondratieff prize for his "contribution to the development of the social sciences" by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation.
Selected works
Planning Problems in the USSR: The contribution of mathematical methods to their solution. Socialist Planning.- "Did the agricultural surplus provide the resources for the increase in investment in the USSR during the First Five Year Plan?," Economic Journal.
- "Transformation, depression and economics: some lessons," Journal of Comparative Economics. Reprinted in P.G.Hare & J.R.Davis Transition to the market economy, vol.1.
- with V.Kontorovich, The destruction of the Soviet economic system: an insiders' history.
- "The 1947 Soviet famine and the entitlement approach to famines," Cambridge Journal of Economics.Russia’s oil and natural gas: Bonanza or curse?.