Laura Solanko: ‘An Academic Today Cannot Help but Want to Create and Work’
As part of the XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development, a ceremony took place to award the National Prize for Applied Economics, which this year went to William Pyle and Laura Solanko for their convincing validation of Mancur Olson’s hypothesis using unique data on Russian business associations.
Top 15 Most Interesting Reports of the HSE's XV April International Academic Conference
Russians are failing to cope with debt; small town economies are lagging behind; the Russian market is not favourable for a defined-contribution pension system, and Russian statistics are unsuitable for analysis — these were the top 15 most interesting papers from the HSE's XV April Conference, according to Opec.ru
‘There’s a Less War-Like Culture Evolving’
Ronald Inglehart, Academic Supervisor at the HSE Laboratory of Comparative Social Research in St. Petersburg, has been affiliated with the HSE for several years now. He shared some of his impressions of the XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development and findings of the 4th LCSR International Workshop, which was part of the event.
The Five 'C's: Essential Elements for Building Foresight
Attila Havas, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, shared his views with the HSE news service on the development of foresight practices in Russia and around the world, and talked about his impressions of the April Conference.
Russia is a Country with Great Potential
Massimiliano Onorato, Assistant Professor Economics and Institutional Change at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca (Italy). His interests include political economy and macroeconomic development.
Moscow’s Exhilarating Energy Sets Mood at April Conference
Ikka Korhonen, Head of the Research Institute for Economics in Transition, Bank of Finland:‘My interests lie in the area of macroeconomics, and there are a lot of papers being presented at the conference that important for my work.'
Cooperation Bears Fruit
International participants of the XV HSE April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development speak to the HSE News Service.
New Agreements on Cooperation with the HSE to Be Signed at the Conference
International participants of the XV HSE April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development speak to the HSE News Service.
Growing Partnership with the HSE Contributes to Comparative Social Research on Russia and Germany
Katharina Blum has longstanding ties with Russia, having studied in the Faculty of Philosophy at Lomonosov Moscow State University. She knows and loves Russian literature, especially Mikhail Bulgakov, as well as those places in Moscow where the action takes place in his novel The Master and Margarita. She studies the Russian and German elite through comparative analysis, as well as other topics common to Russia and Germany.
Russian Minister of Finance: ‘We Can’t Live Lavishly in Difficult Times’
Anton Siluanov, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, spoke at opening of the XV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development.
Deadline for abstract submission - November 15