The USSR Before the Fall: How Poor and Why
评述了关于苏联消费与产出水平与西方比较的学术研究，指出计算困难与争议，但认为这些研究仍为理解苏联近期剧变提供了有启发性的视角。
This essay appraises the scholarly findings on the level of consumption and output in the USSR, compared with that in the West. Such aggregative calculations are onerous for any country, and not very surprisingly have encountered particular difficulty where such a strange society as Soviet communism has been in question. Predictably, the results have been controversial, but properly viewed they still provide illuminating perspective on the extraordinary events that have lately transpired in the USSR.