��时最通用的经济学概论教科书，即诺贝尔经济学奖获得者保罗·萨缪尔逊（Paul Samuelson）的《经济学 》 ， 仍预测俄罗斯可能超过美国成为世界最大经济体。
The leading introductory economic textbook of the time, by Nobel laurate Paul Samuelson, was still predicting that Russia might overtake the US as the world’s largest economy.