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"as late as 1984 John Kenneth Galbraith was writing that “the Soviet system has made great material progress in recent years is evident both from the statistics and from the general urban scene. . . .
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In 1985 the great economist Paul Samuelson wrote that “what counts is results, and there can be no doubt that the Soviet planning system has been a powerful engine for economic growth. . . . The Soviet model has surely demonstrated that a command economy is capable of mobilizing resources for rapid growth.” In 1989 Lester Thurow asked, “Can economic command [that is, the industrial policy that Thurow advocated] significantly. . . accelerate the growth process? The remarkable performance of the Soviet Union suggests that it can. . . ."
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Trechos retirados de "The Bourgeois Dignity. Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World" de  Deirdre McCloskey.