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ukliberal democrats catholicism london , united kingdom keynesian economics a c pigou , j m keynes darkorange british and swiss socialist economics transition economics area studies 2 june 1926 michael kaser
 michael kaser university of cambridge
michael kaser

michael kaser -lrb- born in london in 1926 -rrb- is a british economist who specialises on central and eastern europe and the ussr and its successor states .
he is reader emeritus in economics at the university of oxford and emeritus fellow of st antony 's college , oxford , and formerly a fellow of templeton college , oxford .
he is also honorary professor in the school of social sciences at the university of birmingham .
in a trio of books published between 1965 and 1970 kaser presented a detailed picture of the workings of the socialist planned economies at enterprise , national and international levels .
his work has sought to apply keynesian economic theory to the analysis of the socialist planned economies and he identified the systemic problems that were neglected by the ruling communist parties , and which contributed to the disintegration of the economic system at the end of the 1980s .
