Conference Materials 2007

Section 1

FIRST PLENARY SESSION “Russia on the eve of the New Age: Breakthroughs and Failures of Economic REforms”

Modernization is Necessary: Is the Society Ready?

Evgueny Yasin

State University - Higher School of Economics, Academic Supervisor, Laureate of the International Leontief Medal «For Contribution to Economic Reforms» (2007)
Conception

From Market Socialism to Market Economy: History of the Concept of Reforming Socialist Economy

Marek D?browski

CASE – Center for Social and Economic Research, Chairman of the Supervisory Council, Poland
Conception

Section 2

SECOND PLENARY SESSION PROPERTY AND POWER: THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION AT THE BEGINNING of THE XXI CENTURY

The Struggle of Power and Property in the Modern Russia

Rustem Nureev

Head of the Department for Economic Analysis of the Organizations and Markets, State University – Higher School of Economics
Conception

Section 3

FIRST SECTIONAL SESSION ECONOMIC REFORMS. PLans and RESULTS: Whether the NATURAL MONOPOLIES ARE being REFORMED?

Gazprom Reform: Plan and its Failure

Vladimir Milov

Institute of Energy Policy, General Director
Conception

Railway and Electricity Restructuring in Russia: On the Road to … Where?

Russell Pittman

Antitrust Division U.S. Department of Justice, Director of Economic Research
Conception

Electric Power Industry: The Road to Market and Upgrade

Dmitry Akhanov

Head of the Centre for Implementation of the AO-Energo Reform Projects; Head of the Strategy Department, Centre of RAO UES of Russia
Conception

The Problems of the Public-Private Partnership in the Russian Public Utilities

Alexander Puzanov

Institute for Urban Economics, General Director
Conception

Presentation of the multi-author book of the Independent Institute for Social Policy (IISP) Review of the Social Policy in Russia. The Beginning of the 2000’s

Tatyana Maleva

Independent Institute for Social Policy, Director
Conception

SECOND SECTIONAL SESSION ECONOMIC REFORMS. PLans and RESULTS: “Social Package”: The issues of reforming SOCial Sector

Social Protection in the System of State Institutions: Traditions, Populism and Struggle for Financial Flows

Liliya Ovcharova

Independent Institute for Social Policy, Deputy Director
Conception

Reforming the System of Higher Education: Experience and Lessons

Tatiana Klyatchko

Centre for the Economics of Lifelong Education. The Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation, Director
Conception

Transformation of the Mechanisms of Social Policy: How Regions Adapt

Natalya Zubarevich

Independent Institute for Social Policy, Regional Program Director
Conception

Pension Crisis Again?

Tatyana Maleva

Independent Institute for Social Policy, Director
Conception

THIRD SECTIONAL SESSION ECONOMIC REFORMS: PLANS AND RESULTS

Reforming Issues: Inequality, Interest Differences, and Difficulties in Creating Coalition for Modernization

Leonid Grigoriev

Institute for Energy and Finance (IEF), President
Conception

Administrative Reform in Russia: Action of the Near Future?

Vitaly Tambovtsev

Moscow State Lomonosov University, Laboratory Chief
Conception

Reforms in Russia by Business’ Eyesight: What Has Changed for Seven Years?

Andrei Yakovlev

State University – Higher School of Economics, Vice-rector, Director of Institute for Industrial and Market Studies
Conception

Regional Budgets After Transition to the Appointment of the Governors

Pavel Kadochnikov

Institute for the Economy in Transition, Department Director
Conception

Evolution of Economic Agenda in Russia

Andrei Illarionov

Foundation “Institute of Economic Analysis”, President, Laureate of the Leontief Medal “For Achievements in Economy” (2003)
Conception

Section 4

ROUND TABLE ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND ECONOMIC HISTORY

The Concept of “Happiness” in the Modern Economic Theory

Pavel Lukichev

St.-Petersburg State Agrarian University, Chief of Department of Economics
Conception

Economic Theory of Dictatorship: R.Wintrobe Concept

Andrej Zaostrovtsev

ICSER "Leontief Centre", Senior Research Fellow
Conception

Concept of Personal Costs as the Development of Neo-institutional Economic Theory

Oleg Chekmarev

St.-Petersburg Institute of Economic, Culture and Business Administration, Professor of the Department for General and Special Management
Conception

Penetration and Development of the Ideas of Marginalism in Russia: the End of the XIX-Beginning of the XX Century

Anton Dmitriev

St.-Petersburg University of Economics and Finance, Docent
Conception

Modern Concepts of the Capital Market: Historical Review and Correlation of the Theory and Practice

Alexej Vorontsovsky

St.-Petersburg State University, the Faculty of Economics, Professor, Vice-Dean for Scientific Work
Conception

Paradigm of Poverty and Crisis in the Russian and Foreign Social Thought and Economic Development of Russia in 1861-1914

Boris Mironov

St.-Petersburg State University, Professor, Laureate of the Leontief Medal “For Achievements in Economy” (2005)
Conception

Scientific Systems of Management and their Evaluation in the Russian Press in the Beginning of the XX Century

Andrej Semenov

St.-Petersburg State University, Professor
Conception