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Plenary Session
Pages 20-20

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... Klein contended that while everyone had been wrong to a certain extent, on the whole American experts had presented policy makers, specialists, and the larger public with as accurate a picture of the Soviet economy as the limited data could provide. He also suggested that recent changes in the Soviet system and the Soviets' avowed interest in participating in various international organizations indicated that analysts might be able to go beyond the short cuts of the AFC method in the future.
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