Yuri Nicholas Maltsev born in Kazan

Kazan

Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the...

, Tatarstan

Tatarstan

The Republic of Tatarstan is a federal subject of Russia located in the Volga Federal District. Its capital is the city of Kazan, which is one of Russia's largest and most prosperous cities. The republic borders with Kirov, Ulyanovsk, Samara, and Orenburg Oblasts, and with the Mari El, Udmurt,...

, Russia

Russia

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, is an Austrian school economist and economic historian

Economic history

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. He is a Professor of Economics at the Carthage College

Carthage College

Carthage College is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Situated in Kenosha, Wisconsin midway between Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the campus is on the shore of Lake Michigan and is home to 2,500 full-time and 900 part-time...

 in Wisconsin

Wisconsin

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 and is a Senior Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute

Ludwig von Mises Institute

The Ludwig von Mises Institute , based in Auburn, Alabama, is a libertarian academic organization engaged in research and scholarship in the fields of economics, philosophy and political economy. Its scholarship is inspired by the work of Austrian School economist Ludwig von Mises...

 in Auburn

Auburn, Alabama

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, Alabama

Alabama

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.

Yuri Maltsev graduated from Moscow State University

Moscow State University

Lomonosov Moscow State University , previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU , is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy...

 with a Master of Arts

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...

 in History and Social Sciences (1973) and received his Doctorate of Philosophy in Labor Economics from the Institute for Labor Research in Moscow (1980). Dr. Maltsev held, over a fifteen-year period, various teaching and research positions in Moscow, Russia. Before moving to the U.S. in 1989, he was a member of a team of Soviet economists that worked on President Gorbachev's reforms package of perestroika at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences consists of the national academy of Russia and a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation as well as auxiliary scientific and social units like libraries, publishers and hospitals....

. He was a Program Director of the International Center

International Center

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 and a Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace

United States Institute of Peace

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 in Washington, DC.

Dr. Maltsev has appeared on PBS Newshour, CNN

CNN

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, C-Span

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, Voice of America

Voice of America

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, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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, Radio Free Market, National Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Radio

Wisconsin Public Radio

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 and Danish, British, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish, and Finnish television and radio programs. Most recently he was a guest on the June 8, 2010 episode of The Glenn Beck Program. In the episode, Beck revealed — and Maltsev confirmed — that reading of "prohibited" and "samizdat" books like Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

The Road to Serfdom

The Road to Serfdom is a book written by the Austrian-born economist and philosopher Friedrich von Hayek between 1940–1943, in which he "warned of the danger of tyranny that inevitably results from government control of economic decision-making through central planning," and in which he argues...

in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 was a crime punishable by jail time.

Dr. Maltsev has taught at the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, LCC International University in Klaipėda and Baltic Management Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania, University of Caen in Cherbourg, France, University of Dallas

University of Dallas

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 in Texas

Texas

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, and University of San Diego

University of San Diego

The University of San Diego is a Roman Catholic university in San Diego, California. USD offers more than sixty bachelor's, master’s, and doctoral programs...

, California.

Dr. Maltsev serves as a member of the advisory boards of the Foundation for Economic Education

Foundation for Economic Education

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 in Irvington-On-Hudson, New York; Heartland Institute

Heartland Institute

The Heartland Institute is a libertarian, American public policy think tank based in Chicago, Illinois which advocates free market policies. The Institute is designated as a 501 non-profit by the Internal Revenue Service and advised by a 15 member board of directors, which meets quarterly. As of...

 in Chicago; and the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics published by Transaction Periodicals, Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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. He is listed in the Guide to Public Policy Experts of the Heritage Foundation

Heritage Foundation

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 since 1991.

Writings on socialism

Yuri Maltsev writes regular articles on the politics and economics of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, United States and the world economy having formerly worked as an economist in the Soviet Academy of Sciences, as well as for the U.S. federal government at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, a federal research agency. Dr. Maltsev may be the only person to have briefed senior leaders on both sides during the last stages of the Cold War. He is a contributing author and editor of the book Requiem for Marx. He has contributed to ten books including "Encyclopedia of World Poverty", "Reassessing American Presidency" and "Property, Freedom, and Society: Essays in Honor of Hans-Hermann Hoppe", and published over two hundred articles in the Journal of Commerce, Christian Science Monitor, Free Market, Newsday

Newsday

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, San Diego Union Tribune, American Journal for Physicians and Surgeons, Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, Daily Iowan, Kenosha News

Kenosha News

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, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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, Seattle Times, Washington Times and others.

During his time in Russia, Dr. Maltsev was a member of a team of Soviet economists that worked on President Mikhail Gorbachev’s

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...

 policy of perestroika

Perestroika

Perestroika was a political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1980s, widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...

. He is highly critical of the political leaders of the Soviet Union and Russia and their attempts to preserve socialist and statist policies.