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...think we could have made a contribution," Goldman says, but adds, "To be honest, the way things worked out, we're kind of happy that we didn't have anything to do with...
Although the committee's composition may have bruised some egos, scholars point out several more substantive ways that the lack of intellectual diversity harmed the final product. Goldman says he believes that there were gaps in the program participants' understanding of each other's economic systems. For instance, he says, the plan made no allowance for the introduction of wholesaling to the marketplace...
...Goldman says the proposal as it stands is "seriously flawed." He says he believes that, despite the planners' best intentions, the project has already had distinctly negative consequences inside the Soviet Union. "It gave a lot of people the impression that the Soviets were going around hat in hand begging for money," he says. "For a proud people, I think they would have preferred it would be done with a little more subtlety...
...fact, Goldman says, at a Soviet economic forum he attended last Thursday, Yavlinsky said that his government did not want to be given money by Western nations. "They're so over-whelmed by their country's problems," he says. "That's just not what they want right now." Others argue that the project damaged reform efforts by diverting attention away from the question of internal commitment to reform...
...Goldman says, "In the range of history, [the Allison-Yavlinsky proposal] didn't make matters any worse, but it certainly hasn't made them any better...