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Marshall I. Goldman |
Marshall
Goldman, Ph.D.
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professors of Russian Economics,
Welesley College and Senior Scholar at Davis Center for Russian
and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Public Address:
"Petrostate: Putin, Power, and the New Russia"
Wednesday,
November 19, 2008
7 p.m., Shaw Hall, Melvin and Dollie Younts Conference Center
Furman University
Marshall I.
Goldman is Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics
(Emeritus) at Wellesley College. An expert on the Russian economy
and the economics of high technology, he joined the Wellesley faculty
in 1958. In 1998, the Wellesley College Alumnae Association awarded
him its first Faculty Service Award. He is currently Senior Scholar
at the Davis Center for Russian Studies and Eurasian Affairs at
Harvard University after having served as Associate Director from
1975 to 2006.
An internationally
recognized authority on Russian economics, politics, and environmental
policy, Professor Goldman is known for his study and analysis of
the careers of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. He is the author
of over a dozen books on the former Soviet Union, including The
USSR in Crisis: The Failure of an Economic System, and Gorbachev's
Challenge: Economic Reform in the Age of High Technology (1987),
in which he envisioned the monumental problems that would confront
Perestroika and which threw the country into economic and political
turmoil. His works also include What Went Wrong with Perestroika:
The Rise and Fall of Mikhail Gorbachev (W.W. Norton, 1991),
monographs entitled Lost Opportunity: Why Economic Reforms in
Russia Have Not Worked (W.W. Norton, 1994) and Lost Opportunity:
What Has Made Economic Reform in Russia So Difficult (Norton,
1996), and The Piratization of Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry
(Rutledge, 2003). His most recent book, Petrostate: Putin, Power
and the New Russia (Oxford University Press, April 2008), tells
an intriguing tale of Putin's control of petro assets and the power
it wields.
A frequent
visitor to the republics of the former Soviet Union, Professor Goldman
was present during the August 1991 coup attempt. He has met with
Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin, former President George Bush,
and President George W. Bush and continues to meet regularly with
business leaders, diplomats, and government officials at the highest
levels in both countries.
Dr. Goldman
taught American economics to students and general audiences while
a Fulbright-Hayes Lecturer at Moscow State University in 1977; and
in 1980s, he was invited by the U.S. Ambassador to the former Soviet
Union to deliver a series of lectures on behalf of the U.S. Government.
He also has spoken on several invitational tours in China and has
lectured throughout Western Europe and Asia.
A consulting
editor to the journal Current History, Goldman's expertise is also
sought by the media. He has written frequently for such publications
as Current History, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The
Washington Post, and The Harvard Business Review.
His articles have also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic
Monthly, and Science, and he has been a frequent guest
on CNN and “Good Morning America.” He has appeared on
“The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” “Crossfire,”
“Face the Nation,” “The Today Show,” and“
Nightline.” In addition, he is often heard on National Public
Radio and has written regularly for the Russian newspapers, Moscow
News and The Moscow Times.
In 1991, Professor
Goldman was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. He has been a consultant to the State Department, the
Environmental Protection Agency, the Council on Environmental Quality,
the Ford Foundation, and numerous corporations. A director of the
Century Bank and Trust Company, the Jamestown Foundation and Trustee
of Northeast Investors, Professor Goldman is a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations and the American Economic Association. Professor
Goldman has served as a trustee of the Noble and Greenough School
as well as The Commonwealth School of Boston and is past president
of the Hillel Council of Greater Boston. He is also past president
of the early music group, Boston Baroque. A longtime resident of
Wellesley, Massachusetts, Marshall Goldman was an elected member
of the Wellesley Town Meeting and also served on the town's Conservation
Commission as well as the Incinerator Study Committee.
Professor Goldman
is a 1952 graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Russian studies and economics
from Harvard University in 1956 and 1961, respectively. He was awarded
an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, in 1985.
Marshall Goldman
and his wife, Merle, a professor emerita of Chinese history at Boston
University, are the parents of four children.
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