Gregory Grossman, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGregory Grossman
American economist
Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1921
Date of Death: 14-Aug-2014
Profession: economist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Gregory Grossman
- Gregory Grossman (July 5, 1921, Kiev – August 14, 2014) was late professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, an authority on the economy of the Soviet Union.
- He is credited with the introduction of the terms "second economy" and "command economy".He received his undergraduate degree in economics from Berkeley in 1942 and his Ph.D.
- in economics from Harvard University in 1952.
- He spent his entire career, 1952-1993, at Berkeley.He received the lifetime achievement award from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in 1991. The term "command economy" was introduced in his seminal 1963 article Notes for a Theory of the Command Economy.
- The term "second economy" was introduced in his another article, The Second Economy of the USSR (1977).
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