Russian and Western Economic Thought

Vladimir Avtonomov is a Distinguished Professor and Head of the Research Group in History and Methodology of Economics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow (NRU HSE), Russia. He is also Department Head of the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations at the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO RAN), a Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and serves on the editorial boards of the European Journal of History of Economic Thought and several Russian economic journals. He is Editor-in-Chief of the almanac “Istoki” (The Sources). He has been awarded the Varga Prize by the Russian Academy of Sciences.Harald Hagemann is a Professor Emeritus of Economic Theory at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. He is also a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Honorary Past President of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), and Honorary Chairman of the Keynes-Gesellschaft.

• Chapter 1. The Transfer of Economic Ideas between Russia and the West: an Introduction (Vladimir Avtonomov).- Chapter 2. West-Russia-West: early interactions in economic thought. Cases of Storch and Chernyshevsky (Vladimir Avtonomov).- Chapter 3. Tugan-Baranovsky and the West (François Allisson).- Chapter 4. The circular flow of ideas: Vladimir K. Dmitriev (Christian Gehrke).- Chapter 5. Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz: Traveller between worlds (Christian Gehrke),- Chapter 6. Peter B. Struve as economist: philosophical foundations of economics and development theory (Günther Chaloupek).- Chapter 7. Bazarov, Bogdanov and the West (Elizaveta Burina).- Chapter 8. Lenin’s development economics: an outline (Denis Melnik).- Chapter 9. Russia-West-Russia: Georg von Charasoff, the “humane economy”, and the critique of Marx’s theory of history (Christian Gehrke).- Chapter 10. Eugen (Evgeny Evgenievich) Slutsky (Jean-Sebastien Lenfant).-Chapter 11. Feldman and the Strategy for Economic Growth (Harald Hagemann).- Chapter 12. Chayanov: The Reception of An Early Soviet Agricultural Economist (Carol Scott Leonard).- Chapter 13. N. D. Kondratiev and a New Methodological Agenda for Economics (Natalia Makasheva).- Chapter 14. Jacob Marschak: From a Russian revolutionist to President-elect of the American Economic Association (Robert W. Dimand).- Chapter 15. Simon Kuznets and Russia: An Uneasy Relationship (Moshe Syrquin).- Chapter 16. Alexander Gerschenkron (Andrey Belykh).- Chapter 17. Wassily Leontief and his German period (Harald Hagemann).- Chapter 18. Paul Baran (John King).- Chapter 19. Evsey Domar and Russia (Mauro Boianovsky).- Chapter 20. Leonid Kantorovich (Michael Ellman).

“The present book is a rich source of information on many of these emigrants, and on their colleagues or predecessors who stayed and worked in less stimulating circumstances. The biographies run until the end of the twentieth century, because all the heroes of this book were gone when Leontief passed away in 1999. The editors and authors have produced well-written and well-documented texts on the lives and works of these economists in this wide-ranging book. I highly recommend it.” (Wilfried Parys, History of Economics Review, June 3, 2024)