Gregory Grossman (July 5, 1921, Kiev – August 14, 2014[1]) was the professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and an authority on the economy of the Soviet Union.
He spent his entire career, 1952–1993, at Berkeley.
[2] He received the lifetime achievement award from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in 1991.
The term "command economy" was introduced in his seminal 1963 article Notes for a Theory of the Command Economy.
[2] He supervised the English translation by Arthur and Claora Levin of The Russian Factory in the Nineteenth Century the PhD thesis of the Legal Marxist Mikhail Tugan Baranovsky first published in Russian in 1898.