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<text id=90TT1997>
<title>
July 30, 1990: Business Notes:Surveys
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
July 30, 1990 Mr. Germany
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 52
Business Notes
SURVEYS
Creeping Capitalism
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<body>
<p> Are the children of Marxist-Leninist teachings really a
bunch of closet capitalists? Perhaps. According to the report
released last week by a team of U.S. and Soviet scholars,
citizens in the Soviet Union seem fully prepared to embrace--in theory, anyway--the free-enterprise system.
</p>
<p> The study, undertaken by Yale economics professor Robert
Shiller along with Soviet sociologist Vladimir Korobov and
economist Maxim Boycko, involved interviews with 391 people in
Moscow and 361 in New York City last May. The objective was to
compare the free-market inclinations of the two groups. Among
the questions asked: Does a table manufacturer have the right
to raise prices if the company can't keep up with private
demand? Most of the Soviet and U.S. consumers responded just
as Adam Smith would have: yes, the manufacturer should be able
to raise prices.
</p>
<p> This free-enterprise spirit is already much in evidence
among Moscow street artists, who are doing brisk business with
a variation of the famous matryoshka dolls. The new set
contains caricatures of five Communist leaders from Lenin to
Gorbachev. Cost: $56.
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</body>
</article>
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