Value and prices in Russian economic thought (1890-1920)

Allisson, François

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“…Vainshtein served as a senior consultant at the Institute, alongside Slutsky and Nikolay Nikolaevich Shaposhnikov, a figure better known for his role in the Russian synthesis between classical political economy and marginalism (Allisson 2015). Vainshtein had previously worked at the Office for Agricultural Economics of Narkomzem and was associated with the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, what might have been a stepping stone leading to Kondratiev's invitation to work at the Institute.…”

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BEYOND RANDOM CAUSES: HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS CYCLES AT THE MOSCOW CONJUNCTURE INSTITUTE

Franco¹,

Ribeiro

Albuquerque

2022

J Hist Econ Thought

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This article proposes a historical assessment of harmonic analysis of business cycles and its ability to both decompose and build cycles, as received at the Moscow Conjuncture Institute. It traces how the Fourier transform arrived at the Institute, mediated by Henry L. Moore, in the works and actions of Albert Vainshtein, Nikolai Chetverikov, and Nikolai Kondratiev, ultimately leading to Eugen Slutsky’s well-known 1927 article “The Summation of Random Causes as the Source of Cyclic Processes.” Although the evidence does not warrant the assumption that there was an orchestrated effort at the Institute to push forward a research agenda on harmonic analysis of business cycles, it certainly unfolded as more than the summation of random events and individual incursions. Moreover, the Institute as a whole could have produced much more on this matter if it had escaped Stalinist oppression for at least a few more years.

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BEYOND RANDOM CAUSES: HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS CYCLES AT THE MOSCOW CONJUNCTURE INSTITUTE

Franco¹,

Ribeiro

Albuquerque

2022

J Hist Econ Thought

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“…Vainshtein served as a senior consultant at the Institute, alongside Slutsky and Nikolay Nikolaevich Shaposhnikov, a figure better known for his role in the Russian synthesis between classical political economy and marginalism (Allisson, 2015). Vainshtein had previously worked at the Office for Agricultural Economics of Narkomzem and was associated with the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, what might have been a steppingstone leading to Kondratiev's invitation to work at the Institute.…”

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Beyond Random Causes: Harmonic Analysis of Business Cycles at the Moscow Conjuncture Institute

Franco¹,

Ribeiro²,

Albuquerque³

2021

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This article proposes a historical assessment of harmonic analysis of business cycles and its ability to both decompose and build cycles, as received at the Moscow Conjuncture Institute. It traces how the Fourier transform arrived at the Institute, mediated by Henry L. Moore, in the works and actions of Albert Vainshtein, Nikolai Chetverikov, and Nikolai Kondratiev, ultimately leading to Eugen Slutsky’s well-known 1927 article The Summation of Random Causes as the Source of Cyclic Processes. Although the evidence does not warrant the assumption that there was an orchestrated effort at the Institute to push forward a research agenda on harmonic analysis of business cycles, it certainly unfolded as more than the summation of random events and individual incursions. Moreover, the Institute as a whole could have produced much more on this matter if it had escaped Stalinist oppression for at least a few more years.

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“…On the perception of Austrian school by Russian economists seeAvtonomov and Makasheva (2018).7 On value-price problem debates in Russia seeAllisson (2015). 8 F. Mirowski, having analyzed publications in the Revue d'économie politique, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and Economic Journal, draw the conclusion that in the period from 1887 through to 1924, "Journals rarely devote more than 5 percent of their pages to mathematical discourse, and in no journal does the proportion of mathematical pages venture beyond one standard deviation of zero"(Mirowski, 1991, p. 150).…”

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Kondratiev and a new methodological agenda for economics

Макашева¹

2021

RUJEC

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This article addresses 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 1920’s in Europe and the USA by representatives of the “brilliant generation of economists,” mostly members of the econometric movement and its adherents among Russian economists. A distinguishing feature of this generation was that its representatives were striving to make economics an objective science penetrated by rigorous ways 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.

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Value and prices in Russian economic thought (1890-1920)

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BEYOND RANDOM CAUSES: HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS CYCLES AT THE MOSCOW CONJUNCTURE INSTITUTE

BEYOND RANDOM CAUSES: HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS CYCLES AT THE MOSCOW CONJUNCTURE INSTITUTE

Beyond Random Causes: Harmonic Analysis of Business Cycles at the Moscow Conjuncture Institute

Kondratiev and a new methodological agenda for economics

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