Clifford G. Gaddy
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Clifford G. Gaddy, an economist specializing in Russia, holds a joint appointment as a fellow in the Brookings Institution's Foreign Policy Studies and its Global Economy and Development program. He is also a founding member of Brookings' Center for Social and Economic Dynamics..
His forthcoming book, Russia’s Addiction: The Political Economy of Resource Dependence (co-authored with Barry W. Ickes of Pennsylvania State University), examines the role of oil and gas in Russia’s domestic economy and in its foreign political and economic strategies.
Gaddy and Ickes are also collaborating on another book, Bear Traps: Pitfalls on Russia’s Road to Sustainable Economic Growth, in which they will be analyzing the fundamental challenges that Russia faces in the areas of education, demography and health, physical capital accumulation, and productivity growth.
Gaddy’s earlier books include The Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold (coauthored with his Brookings colleague Fiona Hill), a study of how territorial misallocation of industry and people burdens today’s Russian economy; Russia’s Virtual Economy (with Barry Ickes), which analyzes the nature and evolution of the post-communist economic system in Russia; The Price of the Past: Russia's Struggle with the Legacy of a Militarized Economy; and Open for Business: Russia’s Return to the Global Economy (with Ed A. Hewett).
Gaddy earned his Ph.D. in economics from Duke University. He has held various teaching and research positions at Duke, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University. He has traveled widely in Russia and been a guest scholar at various research institutes in the country, including the Institute for Economic Forecasting (Moscow), the Kostroma Agricultural Institute, and the Perm Technology Research Center. In the mid-1990s he was an advisor to the Russian finance ministry and regional governments on issues of fiscal federalism for the U.S. Government’s Tax Reform Oversight Project for Russia.
