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Economics Department of the Academy of Sciences. He is director of the Economy
Institute (IE) in Moscow.
Retrospect: The progenitor of this institute was established in 1930 by combining the
Economic Section of the Communist Academy and the Institute of Economics of the
Russian Association of Research Institutes in the Social sciences becoming the
Institute of Economics of the Communist Academy. In 1936, with the dissolution of
the Communist Academy and combined with it’s affiliated Agrarian Institute, the
Institute of Economics was made part of the AN SSSR system with its main focus
upon research on questions of the political economy of socialism, economic
problems of socialist industrial and Agricultural development, and the history of the
USSR national economy, and statistics. During WWII, the institute concentrated
upon the war effort. In 1947, it was merged with the Institute of World Economy
and World Politics of the AN SSSR, becoming thereby the leading scientific
economic center. In 1956, the Institute of World Economy and International
Relations was separated from the Institute of Economics, and in 1960, the Institute
of Economics of the World Socialist System was also broken off. Directors of the
institute have been: K. V. Ostrovitianov (1947-53), V. P. D’ianchenko (1953-56),
I. D. Laptev (1956-60, K. N. Plotnikov (1960-65), L. M. Gatovskii (1965-71), E.
P. Kapustin (1971-86), and since 1986 L. I. Abalkin has served as Director. The
Institute of Economics works with the Central Economic-Mathematical Institute, the
State Planning Committee (GOSPLAN), regional AN SSSR economic research
facilities, union republic academies and various scientific councils to coordinate
research and to develop forecasting and planning techniques and methods, economic
models and cost accounting procedures. The institute has published Voprosy
ekonomiki since 1948. The institute has a staff of 350 researchers of whom 63 hold
the doctorate and 186 hold candidate degrees. One academician and three
corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences are on the staff.
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Structure of the institute: The institute is organized into eight Departments:
(1.) general problems of the political economy of socialism;
(2.) reproduction and efficiency;
(3.) problems of labor;
(4.) complex problems of the economic mechanism;
(5.) theoretical problems of the management of the national economy;
(6.) the study of foreign experience and criticism of bourgeois theory;
(7.) scientific information, and
(8.) an editorial-publishing Department.
Research thrusts in the institute: Under the overall supervision of the institute Director L. I.
Abalkin, the major theme of the scientific fundamentals for refining the economic
mechanism in the management of the socialist economy from 1988 to the year 2000
was undertaken. Segments of this research effort included: under L. I. Abalkin, the
improvement of production relations--scientific fundamentals for reconstructing the
economic mechanism; productive forces and production relations under accelerated
socioeconomic development--theoretical problems of the strengthening and
augmentation of socialist property and economic forms of its realization under L. V.
Nikiforov; problems of the theory and methodology of forming an integrated system
of management of the national economy under B. Z. Mil’ner; critical analysis of
bourgeois forecasting of socioeconomic development in Russia and other socialist
countries under Iurii Ia. Ol’sevich; trends in the development of management in
foreign socialist and capitalist countries under N. A. Klimov; labor potential and
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