1. Before the Bolshevik revolution, 1880-1917 -- 2. From war communism to NEP, 1917-26 -- 3. At the conjuncture institute, 1926-30 -- 4. The impact of Stalinism, 1930-48 -- 5. Slutsky on Sir William Petty -- 6. Slutsky and probability theory -- 7. Slutsky and currency emission.

1. A most indescribable and extraordinary game -- 2. Early writings -- 3. Selling economics by the hour and on the Q.T. (of M.) -- 4. Early economics -- 5. Killing Germans as cheaply as possible -- 6. The economic consequences of war -- 7. Cycling for Britain's national interest -- 8. The method...

This article examines a hitherto neglected book published in 1918 by M. I. Tugan-Baranovskii, which is devoted to outlining his vision of an international socialist economy. It focuses on Tugan's approach to economic planning, money and prices in socialism, and the new international economic...

This article examines Slutsky's 1927 paper 'The Summation of Random Causes as the Source of Cyclic Processes'. It provides an in-depth analysis of both the content and the reception of Slutsky's groundbreaking contribution by distinguishing between a 'real' and a 'statistical' interpretation of...

This article hypothesizes the existence of a Russian strand of historical political economy in the period 1870 to 1913, in parallel with the more famous German and Irish examples. To substantiate this claim the works of various pre-revolutionary Russian economists are surveyed as short case...

This article provides a case study of the development of observational methodology and techniques in a non-Western country. It does so by first considering various institutions of observation that existed in Russia across the nineteenth century, such as government statistical departments, the...