the Russian mirror: four lectures in economic history, London: Cambridge University Press. Gerschenkron, Alexander (1977), An economic spurt that failed: four lectures in Austrian history, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. Gerschenkron, Alexander (1989), Bread and democracy in Germany with a new foreword by Charles S. Maier, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. References Further reading Rosovsky, Henry, ed., Industrialization in two systems; essays in honor of Alexander Gerschenkron by a group of his students, New York, Wiley & Sons (1966) Forsyth, Douglas J. and Daniel Verdier, eds., The Origins of National Financial Systems: Alexander Gerschenkron Reconsidered, London and New York, Routledge, (2003) Dawidoff, Nicholas, The Fly-Swatter: Portrait of an Exceptional Character, New York, Vintage (2003) Gerschenkron, A., ‘Soviet heavy industry. A dollar index of output, 1927/1928–37’ Review of Economics and Statistics, 120 (1955) External links David Warsh (April 24, 2005), "The Man Who Succeeded Gerschenkron". Albert Fishlow (February 24, 2003), "Alexander Gerschenkron: A Latecomer Who Emerged Victorious" – review of Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective Oscar Gass (February 1, 1963), "Russian Economic Development". New York Review of Books, vol. I no. 1 "Gerschenkron's Theory of Economic Backwardness" (archived document) Deirdre (Donald) McCloskey (1992), "Alexander Gerschenkron" American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Austrian School economists American development economists Economic historians Jewish American historians Harvard University faculty 1904 births 1978 deaths 20th-century American historians 20th-century American economists Distinguished Fellows of the American Economic Association Jewish Ukrainian social scientists Odesa Jews Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy Jewish emigrants from Austria to the United States after the Anschluss Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Members of the American Philosophical Society