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The Works of Nikolai D Kondratiev
Editors: Natalia Makasheva, Warren J Samuels and Vincent Barnett
The Pickering Masters
978 1 85196 260 0: 234x156mm: £350.00/$595.00
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Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev (1892-1938) ranks as one of the greatest Russian economists of all time. He was tutored in St Petersburg before the revolution by M I Tugan-Baranovsky, and his work led indirectly to the Mathematical school of Soviet economists exemplified by L V Kantorovich. Kondratiev is famous for conducting the first systematic econometric investigation into the idea of long cycles in the world economy, and for the creation of a centre for the study of business cycles, the Conjuncture Institute, in Moscow in 1920.
This long-awaited edition makes a representative collection of Kondratiev’s work available in translation to modern scholars for the first time. It comes complete with full scholarly annotation, a general introduction, bibliography and index.
Contents
Volume 1
Economic Statics, Dynamics and Conjuncture
General introduction; biographical sketch and introductory essays; The Concepts of Economic Statics, Dynamics and Conjuncture (1924); Long Cycles of Economic Conjuncture (1926); D I Oparin, Critical Analysis of Professor Kondratiev’s Long Cycle of Conjuncture and an Explanation for the Long Fluctuations of Certain Economic Elements: Counter Paper (1926)
Volume 2
Basic Problems of Economic Statics and Dynamics
Volume 3
Writings on Agriculture
The System of the Unified Agricultural Tax in Kind (1921); Changes to Russian and World Agriculture during and after the War, and the main goals of our Agricultural Policy (1922); Relative Fall in Grain Prices and its Significance (1923); The World Grain Market and Prospects for our Grain Exports (1923); The Unified Agricultural Tax (1924); …the Movement of National Economic and Agricultural Conjuncture in Connection with the Progress of Monetary Reform… (1924); Natural Accumulation in Agriculture and the Development of the National Economy (1926); On the Question of Rural Differentation (1927); Characteristic Properties of the Conditions of the Development of Agriculture in the USSR and their Significance (1927); Industry and Agriculture and their Interrelations (1928); The Problem of Foresight (1926); Critical Notes on the Plan of National Economic Development (1927); Plan and Forecast: Methods of Compiling Perspective Plans for Development of the National Economy and for Agriculture in Particular (1927); Critical Notes on the Plan of National Economic Development (1927); Foundations of the Perspective Plans for Development of Agriculture and Forestry (1925)
Volume 4
Further Writings on Agriculture, Speeches, Letters
Speeches, Notes on Vital Problems in the Period (1917); The Agrarian Question: On Land and Land Orders (1917); Large Peasant Farms (1917); Regulation of the Grain Market… (1922); The Year of Revolution from an Economic Point of View (1918); Extracts from Letters by Kondratiev (1922-1938); M I Tugan-Baranovsky (Basic Features of His Scientific World-view) (1923)
Reviews
‘The publication of four volumes of Kondratiev’s texts, which were mostly inaccessible until now, is a major event for academia’
– Francisco Loucă, Journal of the History of Economic Thought
‘This collection is the fruit of a long-standing project initiated by [Kondratiev's] as daughter, one which, prior to Glasnost, entailed the smuggling of papers out of the Soviet Union, and which was fortunate in acquiring, at an early stage, the participation of Warren Samuels, a self-confessed fan of Kondratiev but also a very fine historian of economic thought, who has contributed an illuminating and moving preface to the first volume.’
– Roger Middleton, Economic History Society