Morris Bornstein is professor of economics at the University of Michigan and a former director of its Center for Russian and East European Studies. He has been a consultant to government agencies and foundations and has served on the executive committees of the Council for European Studies and the Association for Comparative Economic Studies and on the American Council of Learned Societies-Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on Eastern Europe. His publications include Plan and Market (1973), Economic Planning, East and West (1975), Comparative Economic Systems (4th edition, 1979), East-West Relations and the Future of Eastern Europe (1981), and many articles in economic journals and chapters in collective volumes.