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 HISTORY OF THOUGHT

 

 

Gloveli Georgii

Doctor of sciences (Economics), professor

National Research University «Higher School of Economics», Moscow This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7871-6533

 

Merzlikin Konstantin 

PhD (Economics), researcher

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

R.M. NUREEV: FROM «POLITICAL ECONOMY IN A BROAD SENSE» TO THE SEARCH FOR AN INSTITUTIONAL «GRAND THEORY» OF ECONOMIC HISTORY

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This article explores the scholarly legacy of Rustem Makhmutovich Nureev, who published his first conceptual work in 1976 in a volume of the Institute of Economics of the USSR Academy of Sciences and later spent many years at the Center for Methodological and Historical-Economic Studies of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Particular attention is given to the importance of Nureev’s innovative elaboration of the concept of the Asian Mode of Production (AMP) as a way of overcoming the cognitive dead ends of Soviet political-economic scholasticism. Nureev highlighted the parallels between the AMP, understood as the historically earliest model of «power-property», and the administrative-command system of «real socialism», which was based on formal socialization carried out through the total statization of social relations. The article further characterizes Nureev as one of the leading figures of post-Soviet institutionalism, who regarded the diversity of institutional theories as an alternative to the ahistoricism of neoclassical economics, and as offering a promising foundation for the creation of a new “grand theory” of economic development grounded in inter-paradigmatic and interdisciplinary integration.

 

Keywords: political economy in the broad sense, Asian Mode of Production (AMP), cognitive impasses of the political economy of socialism; power-property, neoclassicism, post-Soviet institutionalism; new and contemporary economic history, grand theories of social development

 

JEL:А11, В25, B52, D01, E02, N15, O10, Р00

UDC: 330.8

DOI: 10.52342/2587-7666VTE_2025_4_91_104

 

© G. Gloveli, K. Merzlikin

© Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences «Issues of Theoretical Economics», 2025

 

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Manuscript submission date  20.08.2025

Manuscript acceptance date: 27.09.2025

 

For citation:

Gloveli G., Merzlikin K. R.M. Nureev: from «Political Economy in a Broad Sense» to the Search for an Institutional «Grand Theory» of Economic History // Voprosy teoreticheskoy ekonomiki. 2025. No. 4. Pp. 91–104. DOI: 10.52342/2587-7666VTE_2025_4_91_104.