It has become popular in Russia to speak about the crash of the Western economic model and liberal capitalism and this talk may make some sense from the political point of view. All of economic history shows that however harsh a crisis may be and whatever stage of capitalism's decomposition is...

A detailed analysis of all crises (we shall describe them, with some qualification, as ‘systemic crises') exceeds the scope of the present article. Here, we shall highlight only some of their common features. What they have in common has nothing to do with the extent of the decline in...

The paper deals with the trends in the world and Russian economies towards development of a new post-crisis system, including technological and structural transformation. Three main scenarios of Russian economic development (conservative, innovation and acceleration) are discussed basing on...

Global crisis forms new economic policy agenda which raises new questions for economic theory and economic thinking. This paper deals with these new intellectual challenges. Among them: growth theory and the risks of secular stagnation, unconventional macroeconomic policy and the prospects of...

The year 2008 will acquire a special significance economic history of Russia and of the world. This was a year in which the economic crisis developed with extraordinary rapidity and in which pubic opinion devolved from feelings of euphoria to feelings of despair. In a matter of months in Russia...