Works of Abalkin on Economics

Author: (Russian) Leonid
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin is an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a renowned economist, and a social thinker with strong national patriotism and a sense of social responsibility. Academician Abalkin has written extensively. In 2000, the Moscow Economic Publishing House published the "Collected Works of L.I. Abalkin" in four volumes, totaling over 3,000 pages. Now, he has carefully selected 300,000 words from these works, supplemented by new statements and articles, compiling his representative works from various periods to reflect the beliefs he has consistently upheld throughout his academic career, and presenting them to Chinese readers. In this book, Academician Abalkin expresses his fundamental views on the market economy, believing that the most effective mechanism for economic growth is the market mechanism. Only competition can make the market economy work, and without competition, there would be no market economy. What is a market economy? How to transition to a market economy? These are the core themes of this collection. Additionally, he explores the understanding of some concepts in economic theory and how to explain modern socio-economic processes. In recent years, the basic framework of the state-regulated market economy theory model pursued by Academician Abalkin has been gradually implemented in Russia. This book is suitable for social thinkers, economists studying the market economy and transition economies, experts on China and Russia, as well as young and middle-aged scholars and economics enthusiasts.