Visitors to Alexandre Birman’s penthouse apartment in São Paulo are greeted by a who’s who of Brazilian modernist design. The armchair in the entry is by Lina Bo Bardi and Giancarlo Palanti, a pair of ...

Birman had served in Moscow as a director of planning in Soviet factories. As a consequence he had a profound distrust of official Soviet statistics and believed its economy was smaller and could ...

Igor Birman, 82, a Russian emigre and economist who predicted the implosion of the Soviet economy and the fall of the Soviet Union a decade before the events occurred, died April 6 at his home in ...

AGREAT BIRMAN cat looks kind of like a puffball Siamese: beige-golden fur, round blue eyes, a dark face and legs, and four snow-white feet. It’s the white-gloved feet that are the tricky part, says ...