Padma Desai

Padma Desai is the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems and director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University.

A leading scholar of the Russian economy, she is the author of Conversations on Russia: Reform from Yeltsin to Putin, which was the Financial Times Pick of the Year in 2007, and coathor of Work Without Wages: Russia's Non-Payment Crisis (MIT Press).

Her most recent book, on the current economic crisis, is From Financial Crisis to Global Recovery. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.