Thursday, November 03, 2011

Yuri Maltsev, professor of economics at Carthage College in Wisconsin, will lecture on “Communism and Health Care in the Soviet Union: Lessons Learned” at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 10 in Cameron Hall 105 on the campus of the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Maltsev’s appearance is sponsored by the BB&T Center for Global Capitalism and Ethics in UNCW’s Cameron School of Business. The lecture is free and open to the public, but seating is limited so early arrival is advised.

From his unique perspective as a member of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s team of senior economists, Maltsev will address the failures of communism and centralized health care in the former Soviet Union. He warns that socialized medicine could hurt health outcomes and freedom in the United States.

Maltsev earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at Moscow State University and his Ph.D. in Labor Economics at the Institute of Labor Research in Moscow, Russia. Before defecting to the U.S. in 1989, he was Chief Consultant of the Bank for Foreign Trade and then a member of a senior team of Soviet economists that worked on Gorbachev’s reforms package. Prior to joining the faculty at Carthage College, Maltsev was a Peace Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., a federal research institution. Maltsev has also consulted with various departments of the U.S. government and testified before Congress.

He has lectured at leading universities, corporations, banks, colleges, churches and schools all over the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa. Maltsev has appeared on CNN, Fox News, PBS NewsHour, C-Span, CBC and other American, Canadian, Spanish, Lithuanian and Finnish television and radio programs. He has authored five books and more than a hundred articles published in The Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, Washington Times, Free Market, San Diego Union Tribune, Journal of Commerce, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Seattle Times and others. 

Maltsev's chapter on Franklin Delano Roosevelt was included in a monumental volume: Reassessing American Presidency, published in 2001. Currently he is working on The Tea Party Movement for Praeger Academic Publishers and on the second edition of his previously published Requiem to Marx (1994). He has contributed to the Encyclopedia of World Poverty and numerous other publications.

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Dana Fischetti, media relations manager, 508.3127 or fischettid@uncw.edu
Rob Burrus, chair, Department of Economics and Finance, Cameron School of Business, burrusr@uncw.edu