Gregory Grossman

{{short description|American economist}}

Gregory Grossman (July 5, 1921, Kiev – August 14, 2014[http://www.dailycal.org/2014/08/26/economist-soviet-scholar-gregory-grossman-dies-93/ Economist, Soviet scholar Gregory Grossman dies at 93]) was the professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and an authority on the economy of the Soviet Union.[http://news.berkeley.edu/2014/08/25/authority-on-soviet-economy-gregory-grossman-passes-away/ Authority on Soviet economy, Gregory Grossman, passes away] 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).

He supervised the English translation by Arthur and Claora Levin of The Russian Factory in the Nineteenth Century the PhD thesis of the Legal Marxist Mikhail Tugan Baranovsky first published in Russian in 1898. The English edition was published in 1970.{{cite book |last1=Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky |last2=Levin |first2=Arthur |last3=Levin |first3=Claora S. |title=The Russian Factory in the Nineteenth Century |date=1970 |publisher=Homewood |location=Illinois |edition=english Translation |author1-link=Mikhail Tugan-Baranovsky }}