Nationality Russian Name Leonid Abalkin | Role Economist Awards Order of Honour | |
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Institution Russian Academy of Sciences Books The economic system of socialism, Economy and institutional theory | ||
Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin (Russian: Леони́д Ива́нович Аба́лкин ; 5 May 1930 – 2 May 2011) was a Russian economist.
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Biography
Abalkin was born in Moscow in 1930. He is a graduate of the Moscow Institute of National Economy.
He became director of the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1986. He was a member of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union with special responsibility for economic affairs. He later worked as an advisor to Presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, and was the second-in-command of Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov's government. Under Gorbachev he was one of the major advocates of rapid economic reform, with the consultancy of the Italian economist Giancarlo Pallavicini, and in 1998 became a member of the Economic Crisis Group. Most of his published writings concern the theoretical problems of political economy under socialism. Were among others made, and are still working at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences, the IKF - International Kondratiev Foundation, and are still working at the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences, the IKF - International Kondratiev Foundation, with Branch in Italy, which is Abalkin President, the Academicians Yuri Yakovets and Giancarlo Pallavicini, as deputy Presidents, and the International Institute Sorokin - Kondratiev, which Abalkin is Vice President with Giancarlo Pallavicini, active in Russia, the United States and Italy, with widespread reports in other European and Asian countries. Since 1995 Abalkin is also a member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Upon hearing of his death, then the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stated:
Mr Abalkin was one of the figures at the origins of Russia’s transformation to a market economy and did much to establish new economic mechanisms. A scholar known all around the world, Academician Abalkin had deserved influence in the Russian and international academic communities.