A Pragmatist's Approach to the Soviet Economy: A Conversation with Nikolai Shmelev and Ed. A. Hewett

Factors of Social Tension in the Provinces of the Russian Empire in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

“…The processes of the transition to "modern economic growth" (Kuznets, 1966) occurred in post-Emancipation Russia at the end of the 19 th century and was interpreted in the literature in the framework of development economics and post-Marxist institutionalism (Shmelev, Popov, 1989;Nureev, Latov, 2013;Popov, 2014). Two streams of interpretations of the prevailing trend in the dynamics of Russia's economic development in the period under review stand out.…”

Economic Ideas and Institutional Change: Evidence from Soviet Economic Discourse 1987-1991

“…Levikov 1988;Selyunin 1989, 172;Selyunin 1990). In an article on "Advances and Debts" that was published in June 1987, Nikolai Shmelev even argued that the violation of economic laws "is just as impermissible as the violation of the laws of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor" (Shmelev 1987(Shmelev [1988. It is interesting that in his attack on the dogma of full employment Shmelev referred to Milton Friedman's concept of the "natural rate of unemployment", but interpreted it wrongly as the number of those "who are seeking to change jobs" (Shmelev 1987(Shmelev [1988, 21).…”