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

Natalia Makasheva ()
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Natalia Makasheva: National Research University Higher School of Economics

A chapter in Russian and Western Economic Thought, 2022, pp 267-285 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract 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 1920s 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 distinguishing feature of this generation was that its representatives were striving to make economics an objective science penetrated by rigorous way of thinking and based on a unification between the theoretical-quantitative and the empirical-quantitative approaches to the study of economic phenomena. This paper discusses Kondratiev’s project on the general theory of economic dynamics as an embodiment of that methodological agenda. It also highlights a free exchange of ideas between Kondratiev and economists from different countries as a breeding ground for the emergence of the project and a necessary condition for its implementation.

Keywords: N. D. Kondratiev; Methodology; Economic dynamics; Empirical method; Theoretical method; Statistical approach; B1; B2; B3; B4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B1 B2 B3 B4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-99052-7_13

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