Almanac Istoki

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The 10th issue of the almanac The Origins (“Istoki”) deals with the150th anniversary of the marginalist revolution in economics which is the milestone separating the prehistory and the new history of economic science. This issue contains the less well-known works of Carl Menger, William Stanley Jevons and Leon Walras which may open to the reader the views of these outstanding persons on different problems. The first part contains the works dealing with the history of economic thought and the forerunners of marginalism. The second part off ers the works on general social and political problems. The third part deals with the theory of money. The almanac also contains the article by William Jaffé about the letters exchange between Leon Walras and the great mathematician Henri Poincaré. Gilles Campagnolo puts the work of Carl Menger in the context of his family and social life and ideological atmosphere in Austria and Germany. Marek Loužek opens for the readers the context of the famous Methodenstreit between Menger and Schmoller. The article by R.I. Kapelyushnikov brings to us the ideas of Philipp Henry Wicksteed, one of the most interesting thinkers of the period whose work “Scope and Method of Political Economy” is also publishedin the almanac. This issue also contains the first significant reaction to the marginalist revolution in Russia — M.I. Tugan-Baranovsky’s article in “Juridichesky vestnik” (1890). Its importance is analyzed in N.A. Makasheva’s article. The only article in this issue not connected with the marginalist revolution is A.V. Safronov’s article which carries on the task of comprehending the role of Gosplan in the Soviet economic system.
For students and professors of economics, researchers and everybody interested in economic history and history of economic thought.

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The 9th issue of the almanac The Origins (“Istoki”) contains several sections. The first one offers a provocative pamphlet by Thomas Carlyle, who coined the famous epithet “dismal science” referring to political economy in the context of the justification of slavery in American colonies. On the pages of this book, he is answered by John Stuart Mill. The articles by the modern economists J. Persky, P. Groenewegen, N.A. Makasheva, and R.I. Kapeliushnikov also discuss this subject.
The second section contains the texts presentedat the Round table on the issues of modern macroeconomics, which include a fundamental contribution by R.M. Entov. The almanac also features articles by N.A. Rozinskaya, D. Dear and M. Shiotanion the economic relations between the Russian Empire and the East in the late 19th – early 20th centuries, as well as an article by the Bulgarian colleagues N. Nenovsky and P. Penchev on the activities of S. Demosthenov and N. Dolinsky, Russian émigré economists in Bulgaria. The article by L.S. Grebnev, an employee of the Gosplan in the 1970s and 1980s, is dedicated to the history of the Soviet economy. E.G. Yasin shares his reflections inspired by the analysis of Grebnev’sarticle. Yu.B. Kochevrin’s article contains an original analysis of the theory and practice of the functioning of monetary system underreal socialism in the USSR. The issue concludes with a previously unpublished memoir about L.V. Kantorovich.
The almanac is designed for students and professors of economics, as well as for researchers and all interested in the history of economic thought and national economy.

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The next (eighth) issue of the almanac "The Origins" continues the series published by the Publishing House of the Higher School of Economics. The central theme of the issue is the theoretical reflection of changes and qualitative shifts in economic reality and in the field of economic analysis itself.

The articles that open the almanac present the problems of social construction of economic reality and new aspects in the history of two theoretical revolutions that became milestones in the development of economic analysis - the marginalist (1870s) and formalist (1950s). Articles by Russian authors prepared for the almanac are devoted to issues of spatial and temporal coordinates in the representation of economic reality. The works of prominent American economists demonstrate the differences between the monetarist and Keynesian approaches to the problems of monetary policy using the example of the US economy in the second half of the 20th century. Qualitative shifts in economic reality in the context of economic-historical research are considered in the article by G. Clark, who asks the question: why did not all countries in the world become economically developed? The almanac concludes with works devoted to the history of Latin American structuralism - a direction in the analysis of economic development based on the concept of peripheral capitalism by the Argentine economist R. Prebisch.

For specialists in the field of economic theory, history of economic thought, economic history and social science, students, postgraduates, graduate students and teachers of economic universities and specialties, as well as for a wide range of readers.

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The almanac "The Origins" is a publication dedicated to the analysis of the economy in a broad cultural, historical and intellectual context. The central theme of the next (seventh) issue of the almanac is the theme of the environment: cultural, social, intellectual, in which economic agents act, economic ideas are born and find their form. The main sections of the issue: "Economics and Ethics", "Economics and Literature", "J.M. Keynes and Probability" and "Monuments of Economic Thought. On the 125th Anniversary of I.I. Rubin's Birth". In the almanac, the reader will find original studies of economic behavior in various religious and ethical environments by T.B. Koval and A.A. Susokolov, as well as the work of literary scholar T.D. Venediktova on economic images in fiction. Vivienne Brown's work was prepared especially for the almanac - an example of historical and scientific research into economic thought based on the ideas of M.M. Bakhtin. For the first time in Russian, the work of the Nobel Prize laureate J. Buchanan "Ethical Rules, Expected Estimates, and Large Groups" and the authoritative review on the same topic by D. Hausman and M. McPherson; the famous article by D. McCloskey "The Rhetoric of Economic Theory", which gave rise to the rhetorical approach to the analysis of economic theories; as well as an unpublished, but long-awaited by specialists manuscript by the leading Soviet Marxist of the 1920s I. I. Rubin on the theory of money of Karl Marx. The development of Rubin's interpretation of Marx in our days is presented by the translation of an article by the modern American neo-Marxist D. Foley. Finally, also for the first time in Russian, selected chapters from "A Treatise on Probability" by J. M. Keynes and materials on the subsequent discussion are published.

For specialists in the field of economic theory, ethics, history of economic thought and social science, students, postgraduates and teachers of social sciences.

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The latest (sixth) issue of the almanac "Origins" includes selected works on evolutionary economics, published in Russian for the first time. Among them are articles by T. Veblen "Why Economics Is Not an Evolutionary Discipline?", A. Alchian "Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory", etc. The issue of "path dependence" is considered separately, represented by the work of P. David "Clio and the Economic Theory of QWERTY" and his correspondence polemic with criticism, expressed, in particular, in the also published article by S. Liebowitz and S. Margolis. The theme is developed by Russian scientists: R.I. Kapelyushnikov, R.M. Nureyev and Yu.V. Latov.

This time, the methodology section is entirely devoted to assessing the current state and trends in the development of economic science. To present a panorama of opinions on this topic, the works of researchers belonging to different directions of modern economic thought (from neoclassicist O. Blanchard to neo-Marxists S. Bowles and G. Gintis) are published, written in different genres (from intellectual history of R. Leonard to futurological provocation of D. Colander).

In the section "Monuments of Economic Thought" for the first time in Russia the polemics of 1923-1924 between prominent Russian economists P.B. Struve and A.D. Bilimovich are published.

For specialists in the field of economic theory, history of economic thought, economic methodology and history, students, postgraduates and teachers of economics, as well as for all those interested in this topic.

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The latest (fifth) issue of the almanac "The Origins" includes the most interesting works by foreign and domestic authors, representing a wide range of trends in economic thought. For the first time in Russian, the famous article by K. Polanyi "Aristotle Discovers Economics" and the work by A. Gerschenkron "Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective" are published. The problems of law and economics are presented in articles by J. Stigler and R. Posner, as well as by German researchers K. Kirchner and G.-B. Schaefer. Selected chapters of a book by G. Thornton, little known to the Russian reader, on paper credit and the policy of the British central bank at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries are published. The collection includes new works by Russian scientists: O.I. Ananyin, T.I. Zaslavskaya, R.I. Kapelyushnikov, and others.

For specialists in the field of economic theory, history of economic thought, economic history, institutional economics, students, postgraduates and teachers of economics, as well as for all those interested in this topic.

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The latest issue of "Origins" devotes special attention to one of the new and most productive phenomena in modern economic thought — law and economics. This direction of neo-institutionalism has won wide international recognition, but has been poorly studied in our country. A programmatic article by G. Becker is published, the author whose works have inspired many economists to study the problems of human capital, family economics, crime theory, etc. Of undoubted interest will be the results of information and economic research conducted by K. Arrow, and the issues of the economic logic of the revolutionary process, considered in the work of V. Mau. The publication of J. Schumpeter's "History of Economic Analysis" is continued, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of economic literature, supplemented by a bibliography of WEB resources on economics.

For specialists in the field of economic theory, history of economic thought, economic history, institutional economics, students, postgraduates and teachers of economics, as well as for all those interested in this topic.

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The latest issue of "Istoki" presents materials devoted to methodological problems of development of history of economic research, the publication of the book by I.A. Schumpeter "History of Economic Analysis" is continued; an entire section is devoted to the main work of J.M. Keynes "General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" and the discussions around it. Of interest will be the article on economic crises of the 20th century in Russia, as well as the view of the French economist on the economic history of Russia and the USSR. In the section "From Different Points of View" the reader will get acquainted with the opinion of famous Russian scientists on the place and role of historical and economic knowledge in the system of economic education. A comprehensive bibliography of economic literature is being published with a continuation.

For specialists in the field of economic theory, history of economic thought, economic history, institutional economics, students, postgraduates and teachers of economics, as well as for all those interested in this topic.

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The issue continues the publication of articles by G.Kh. Popov on the abolition of serfdom in Russia and G.I. Shmelev on collectivization in 1929-1933. The section "Publications" presents the works of N.D. Kondratyev "M.I. Tugan-Baranovsky" and J. Schumpeter "History of Economic Analysis". The publication of scientific reference materials on Soviet scientists continues.

For ideological and economic activists, propagandists, specialists in the field of political economy, history of economic thought and national economy, postgraduate students.

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The first issue of the collection opens with a section devoted to methodological problems of development of historical and economic research. Published with continuation of works of G.Kh. Popov on the peasant reform of 1861, G.I. Shmelev on collectivization of 1929-1933, I. Schumpeter "History of economic analysis". Provided are articles devoted to generalization of experience of theory and practice of the Soviet economy for 70 years of its development, including materials on V.I. Vernadsky, F.E. Dzerzhinsky, N.I. Bukharin. The section "Return of Names and Ideas" is dedicated to "forgotten" Soviet economists, economic centers of the 20-30s, contains a conversation with L.L. Konyus.

For specialists in the field of political economy, history of economic thought and national economy, postgraduate students-economists, ideological activists.