The origins of the Russian economics backwardness: the case of one region

ИСТОКИ ОТСТАВАНИЯ РОССИЙСКОЙ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЙ НАУКИ: СЛУЧАЙ ОДНОГО РЕГИОНА

Alexander A. Maltsev and Vasiliy Sukhih
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Alexander A. Maltsev: MSU - Lomonosov Moscow State University = Université d'État Lomonossov de Moscou [Moscou], CRIISEA - Centre de Recherche sur les Institutions, l'Industrie et les Systèmes Économiques d'Amiens - UR UPJV 3908 - UPJV - Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Ural State University of Economics
Vasiliy Sukhih: Ural State University of Economics

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Abstract: The reasons for the poor state of the Russian community of economists and its low international reputation have been widely discussed in the literature. Despite numerous studies, there is lack of consensus among scholars on the issues that caused backwardness of the Russian economics. We believe that one of the possible explanations for this phenomenon is the power struggle of the 1920s within Communist party that led not only to extreme dogmatization of the Soviet economics and its isolation from global economic discourse, but also to the hyper-centralization of economic research and training of economists in several centers. In this article, using the example of Yekaterinburg / Sverdlovsk of the 1920s, we examine the ideological and political motives behind Soviet government fears to provide regions with opportunity to develop economic research and professional training.

Keywords: Russian economics; Russian economists; influence of politics and ideology on science; economic research in the Ural region; российская экономическая наука; российские экономисты; влияние политики и идео- логии на науку; экономические исследования на Урале (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Published in Вопросы теоретической экономики = Theoretical Economics, 2019, 2 (5), pp.82-91. ⟨10.24411/2587-7666-2019-10206⟩

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DOI: 10.24411/2587-7666-2019-10206

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