Barry Shoe Factory, 1992

Barry is now head of pen state's economics department. But in the early nineties, he was a young professor who studied the us. S r. He met with all kinds of former soviet businesses to understand how they were handling transition from communism to capitalism. Barry says it was just one of the many strange ways the post-soviet economy was behaving. And this brick's money thing, barry says: "People need bricks"