He Was Struggling to Get By
In the late 1960s, young Romanian economist, Stefan Mandel, was struggling to get ahead. It was a time of hardship in Romania, with the oppressive Communist rule, poverty, job and food shortages, and a resulting misery among the population.
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Mandel was earning a salary of 360 lei (US $88) each month, clearly not enough to support his wife and two children. He needed to find a way to “get some serious money, quickly,” as he said.