Russia and America (1987) examines the divergence between two countries organised on diametrically opposed economic principles – one centrally-planned state-dominated the other a highly decentralised market economy free from significant government intervention. It highlights not the political changes brought about by the Russian revolution but a longer more gradual process of interaction between physical and human environments. A comparative study extending over several centuries is used to account for the striking differences in their economic history. |Russia and America The Roots of Economic Divergence | Economics