Evsei Liberman
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Evsei Liberman was a Soviet
Soviet Union
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 economist
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 who lived in Kharkiv
Kharkiv
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 (Ukraine
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).

He was a teacher at the Kharkiv Institute of Peoples Econome, the Kharkiv Institute of Engineering and Economy and the University of Kharkiv.

He proposed implanting new methods of planning based on the principles of new democratic centralism
Democratic centralism
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. His dissertation took form in "Plan, benefit and prisms" published in Pravda
Pravda
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(1962). This became a basis for the Soviet reforms of 1965.

His most outstanding works were "Structure of the balance of an industrial company" (1948), "Means to raise the profitability of the socialistic companies" (1956), "Analysis of the use of resources" (1963), "Plan and benefits for the Soviet economy" (1965) and "Planning of the socialism" (1967).

Liberman was very influential. His economic reforms successfully revived the economy of the Soviet Union during the 1960s. Liberman's reform proposals were also implemented in East Germany. It has been argued that if he had not influenced reform in these countries, the economic situation would have deteriorated drastically, as the standard of living and the economy were stagnating.

Liberman's wife, Regina Horowitz, pianist and pedagogue, was a sister of the famed pianist Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Horowitz
Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz    was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Life and early...

. His great-granddaughter, Génia
Génia
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, is also a virtuoso concert pianist.

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