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- <text id=90TT1997>
- <title>
- July 30, 1990: Business Notes:Surveys
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 30, 1990 Mr. Germany
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 52
- Business Notes
- SURVEYS
- Creeping Capitalism
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Are the children of Marxist-Leninist teachings really a
- bunch of closet capitalists? Perhaps. According to the report
- released last week by a team of U.S. and Soviet scholars,
- citizens in the Soviet Union seem fully prepared to embrace--in theory, anyway--the free-enterprise system.
- </p>
- <p> The study, undertaken by Yale economics professor Robert
- Shiller along with Soviet sociologist Vladimir Korobov and
- economist Maxim Boycko, involved interviews with 391 people in
- Moscow and 361 in New York City last May. The objective was to
- compare the free-market inclinations of the two groups. Among
- the questions asked: Does a table manufacturer have the right
- to raise prices if the company can't keep up with private
- demand? Most of the Soviet and U.S. consumers responded just
- as Adam Smith would have: yes, the manufacturer should be able
- to raise prices.
- </p>
- <p> This free-enterprise spirit is already much in evidence
- among Moscow street artists, who are doing brisk business with
- a variation of the famous matryoshka dolls. The new set
- contains caricatures of five Communist leaders from Lenin to
- Gorbachev. Cost: $56.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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