The Development of Socioeconomic Forecasting and the Ideas of Alexandr Anchishkin

Social Sciences. 2014. Vol. 45. P. 1–14.

Kuranov G. O.

The role of prominent Soviet economist academician A. Anchishkin explores in the article, the 80th anniversary of whose birth we celebrate, in the development of ideas and the formation of economic forecasting in the country at the time when the directive planning acted as a leading tool of economic management. Besides, the special role of A. Anchishkin noted in developing a comprehensive program of scientific and technical progress, an information basis for the development of long-term forecasts for the development of the country, moreover, his contribution to the creation of long-term forecasting methodology and improvement of the statistical basis for economic analysis and economic planning. The authors show that the development of social and economic forecasting in the period after 1991, which has undertaken a number of functions of economic planning, largely relied on the further development of A. Anchishkin's ideas, at the same time responding to the new challenges of developing the Russian economy during its entry into the world economic system.

Keywords: forecasting, прогнозирование, Анчишкин, Anchishkin