November 27, 1998

An Anthropologist Faults Academics for Offering 'Misguided' Assistance to Former Soviet-Bloc Nations

By D.W. MILLER

Janine Wedel says that 'econolobbyists' have produced 'misunderstandings and ill will on a massive scale'

Almost a decade ago, the peoples of the former Soviet bloc looked westward for a template of a new society. Would-be benefactors were eager to tutor these nations in democracy and capitalism. Despite more than $80-billion in Western economic aid and technical assistance, however, Eastern Europe's

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