Russian and Western Economic Thought: Mutual Influences and Transfer of Ideas

Springer, 2022.

Under the general editorship: Avtonomov V. S., H. Hagemann

This book examines the interrelations between Russian and European economics from the early 19th century to the present. It analyzes how Western economic thinking, such as classical economics and the marginal revolution, influenced Russian economic thinking and how Western economic ideas were modified and adapted to better reflect the specific Russian circumstances of the time. Moreover, the contributions in this book show how these modified ideas also influenced Western economists at the end of the 19th century, when Russian economics had reached the stage of professionalism and joined the international discourse on the discipline.

Written by an international selection of respected experts, this book provides an overview of the most influential Russian economists and covers a wide range of topics such as the marginal revolution, the specific influence of Marxism, the evolution of mathematics and statistics in Russia in the 1890s–1920s, and the unique experience of building a planned economy in the Soviet Union. It is intended for all scholars and students who are interested in the history of economic thought.

Chapters

N. D. Kondratiev and a New Methodological Agenda for Economics

Makasheva N. A., , in: Russian and Western Economic Thought: Mutual Influences and Transfer of Ideas.: Springer, 2022. P. 267–285.

The article addresses to Kondratiev’s approach to the problems of economic dynamics, cycle and conjuncture in the context of a new methodological agenda which was formulated in the 1920’s in Europe and the USA by representatives   of  the “brilliant generation  of economists”, mostly,  members of econometric movement and its adherents among acquired Russian economists. A ...

Added: October 30, 2022

Keywords: history of Russian economic thought, economics in Russia, Marxism in Russia, history of economics, International Transfer of Economic Ideas