Marshall Irwin Goldman was an American economist and writer.
19 Facts About Marshall Goldman
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Marshall Goldman was an expert on the economy of the former Soviet Union.
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Marshall Goldman was well known for his study of the career of Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Marshall Goldman was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1985.
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Marshall Goldman was Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics at Wellesley College.
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Marshall Goldman was associate director of the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University from 1975 to 2006.
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Marshall Goldman was known for his study and analysis of the careers of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.
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Marshall Goldman was the author of over a dozen books on the former Soviet Union.
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Marshall Goldman taught American economics to students and general audiences while a Fulbright-Hays Lecturer at Moscow State University in 1977; and in 1980s, he was invited by the US Ambassador to the former Soviet Union to deliver a series of lectures on behalf of the US Government.
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Marshall Goldman spoke on several invitational tours in China and lectured throughout Western Europe and Asia.
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Marshall Goldman was a consulting editor to the journal Current History.
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Marshall Goldman wrote for publications as Current History, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Harvard Business Review.
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Marshall Goldman's articles appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and Science, and he was a frequent guest on CNN and Good Morning America.
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Marshall Goldman wrote regularly for the Russian newspapers, Moscow News and The Moscow Times, and was often heard on National Public Radio.
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In 1991, Marshall Goldman was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Marshall Goldman was a consultant to the State Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Ford Foundation, and numerous corporations.
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Marshall Goldman served as a trustee of the Noble and Greenough School as well as The Commonwealth School of Boston and was past president of the Hillel Council of Greater Boston.
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Marshall Goldman was past president of the early music group Boston Baroque.
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Marshall Goldman's comments angered many Southerners as he compared the terrorists to people from Kentucky and Tennessee who "hate the government and regulation and go around attacking everyone".