Economics in Russia Studies in Intellectual History

The history of Russian economic ideas from the sixteenth century to contemporary times is a fascinating, tumultuous yet neglected topic among Western scholars. Whilst over the last 15 years increasing amounts of work has been done on the subject, co-operation between Russian and Western researchers in this field leaves much to be desired. In order to improve this situation, this volume unites Russian and non-Russian researchers together to provide an overview of the current state of the topic and to give a stimulus for further research. Bringing together scholars from the UK, Germany, Japan, Australia, Finland and Russia, the collection puts forward differing, yet complimentary, perspectives on the long-term history of Russian economic ideas. Offering a broad collection of articles covering the period from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, authors have approached the subject from diverse theoretical angles. Contributions in the tradition of Blaug and Schumpeter focusing on economic analysis in a narrower sense, and contributions that - in line with authors like Pribram or Perlman/McCann - deal with economic thought in the context of history and culture, are all represented. In terms of content, the editors have encouraged approaches that represent different economic traditions in order to encourage a diversity of opinions on the national development of Russian economics. As such the volume offers a broad and very relevant assessment of the subject for both historians and economists alike.

General Editor’s Preface; Timeline: The Main Events of Russian History; Chapter 1 Introduction, Vincent Barnett, Joachim Zweynert; Chapter 2 Economic Thought in Muscovy: Ownership, Money and Trade, Danila Raskov; Chapter 3 Russian Economic Thought in the Age of the Enlightenment, Leonid Shirokorad; Chapter 4 Russian Monetary Reformers: Speransky, Mordvinov and Bunge, Alla Sheptun; Chapter 5 Between Reason and Historicity: Russian Academic Economics, 1800–1861, Joachim Zweynert; Chapter 6 Searching for an Ethical Basis of Political Economy: Bulgakov and Tugan-Baranovsky, Natalia Makasheva; Chapter 7 The Enigma of A.V. Chayanov, William Coleman, Anna Taitslin; Chapter 8 Russian Émigré Economists in the USA, Vincent Barnett; Chapter 9 Exiled Russian Economists and the USSR: Brutzkus and Prokopovich, Shuichi Kojima; Chapter 10 The Debate on the Law of Value in the USSR, 1941–53, Michael Kaser; Chapter 11 Soviet Economics after Stalin: Between Orthodoxy and Reform, Pekka Sutela; Chapter 12 From Marxist Economics to Post-Soviet Nationalism, Andrey Zaostrovtsev; Chapter 13 Conclusion, Vincent Barnett, Joachim Zweynert;

Dr Vincent Barnett, Bedfordshire University, UK and Dr Joachim Zweynert, Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Germany.