Vladimir Popov

RECENT PAPERS / ПОСЛЕДНИЕ РАБОТЫ

RESEARCH / ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ

• Growth of human capital in the regions of the Russian Empire in 1897-1913: the role of local self-government bodies (zemstva) financing.– MPRA Paper No. 122162, September 2024 (co-authored with R. Konchakov and D. Didenko).
•  Balance of Payments, Exchange Rate, and Foreign Exchange Reserves in China since 1979. MPRA paper № 121627. August 4, 2024. Balance of Payments, Exchange Rate, and Foreign Exchange Reserves in China since 1979. MPRA paper № 121627. August 4, 2024. 

• Сколько прав нужно человеку: взлет и падение либерализма. How many rights does a human need: The rise and fall of liberalism. MPRA Paper No. 120479, March 2024.

  • Сколько прав нужно человеку: взлет и падение либерализма. РСМД, 5 апреля 2024 г.
• Human capital in the regions of the Russian Empire and inequality in land distribution at the turn of the 20th century,” MPRA Paper № 119796, January 2024 (co-authored with R. Konchakov and D. Didenko).
• The Soviet Union’s Central Planning Model of the 1950s–1970s. – In: Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Post-Socialist Economies (online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Jan. 2024),
  *    The central planning model of the Soviet Union of the 1950-1970s: how it really functioned. Qeios,  Nov 21, 2022.
• Factors of social tension in the provinces of the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. –   MPRA Paper No. 118464,  Sept. 2023 (co-authored with  Roman Konchakov and Dmitry Didenko).
•  US dollar is losing its position of a reserve currency: How the BRICS development bank can ensure soft landing. – MPRA Paper No. 118342, Aug 2023.
  • US dollar is losing its position of a reserve currency: how new BRICS development bank can ensure a soft landing. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 15 October, 2024, pp.1–11.
• Can China maintain high growth rates under the “dual-circulation” decoupling? –  MPRA Paper 117953,  July 2023.
• Why the rich and the poor value freedom and equality differently. MPRA Paper No. 116563, March 2023.
• Recent experiences of successful economic policies: the case of Uzbekistan. In: A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development. Erik S. Reinert & Ingrid Kvangraven (eds.), Edward Elgar, 2023.
• Global health care system after coronavirus: Who has responsibility to protect. – In: The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Economic Systems. Edited by Bruno Dallago and Sara Casagrande, Routledge,  2023. 
  • Global health care system after coronavirus: Who has responsibility to protect. MPRA Paper No. 100542, May 2020. 
• Reducing Inequality: Trends and Policy Approaches. – In: Between Fault Lines and Front Lines. Shifting Power in an Unequal World. Ed by Katja Hujo and Maggie Carter. Bloomsbury, 2022 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).

•  Good’ and ‘Bad’ GDP: Output Fall In Transition Economies And The Dead Rat Effect. SSRN paper, November 29, 2022.
• Brexit: Four Charts to Explain Why Did Britain Make the Decision to Leave the EU. SSRN paper, November 27, 2022.
• Why Is the United States So Tough on Russia? The Answer May Be in the Lenin’s Brochure of 1920. SSRN paper, November 24, 2022.
• The holy trinity of transition: liberalization, privatization, and stabilization. Qeois, Nov 22, 2022.
• Why Europe looks so much like China: Big government and low income inequalities.  MPRA Paper No. 106326, March 2021.
  • Asia and the Global Economy, January 2022, Vol.2, Issue 1.
• Re-thinking East Asian Model of Economic Development After the Covid-19. – Special Issue of Seoul Journal of Economics, 2020, Vol. 33.  Co-edited with Keun Lee.
  • • Editor’s Introduction to the Special Issue. Co-authored with Keun Lee.
    • Which economic model is more competitive? The West and the South after the Covid-19 pandemic –Seoul Journal of Economics 2020, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 505-538.

• Covid-19 pandemic and long-term development trajectories of East Asian and Western economic models. – Pathways to Peace and Security (Пути к миру и безопасности), 2020, №2 (59).

• The mystery of growth mechanism in a centrally planned economy: Planning process and economics of shortages. – MPRA paper No. 101300, June 2020. 
• Global health care system after coronavirus: Who has responsibility to protect. MPRA Paper No. 100542, May 2020. 
•  How to Deal with a Coronavirus Economic Recession? MPRA Paper No. 100485, May 2020.
•  A myth of soft budget constraints in socialist economies. – MPRA Paper No. 99769,  April 2020.

When Life Expectancy Is Falling: Mortality Crises in Post-Communist Countries in a Global Context.

Edited by  Vladimir Popov.  Nova Publishers, 2020.

• Mortality and life expectancy in post-communist countries. What are the lessons for other countries? A concept note for a new DOC research project, June 5, 2018.

• Successes and failures of industrial policy: Lessons from transition (post-communist) economies of Europe and Asia. –MPRA Paper No. 95332, August 2019.
  • Oxford Handbook on Industrial Policy. Ed. by Arkebe Oqubai, Christopher Cramer, Ha-Joon Chang, Richard Kozu-Wright.  OUP, 2020, p.779-810.

Macroeconomic Policies in Countries of the Global South.

Edited by Anis Chowdhury and Vladimir Popov.  

Nova Publishers, 2019.

•    Macroeconomics in the developing world: Major observations (co-authored with Anis Chowdhury). DOC-RI Research project, July 2019.

•    Exchange rate and foreign exchange reserve policies. – DOC-RI Expert comment, 2019.

• Review in “International Affairs“, 15.10.2019.

• Book Review: Examining Macroeconomic Policies in the Global South. – C2C Digital Magazine (Fall 2019 / Winter 2020).

Video: Introduction to the DOC-RI November 2018 conference “Macroeconomic policies in countries of the Global South”.
Video: Exchange Rate and Foreign Exchange Reserves Policies.  Presentation at the DOC-RI November 2018 conference “Macroeconomic Policies in Countries of the Global South”.

• Billionaires, millionaires, inequality and happiness. – MPRA paper No. 94081,  May 2019.
  • • • В бедных странах экономическое неравенство делает людей счастливее. Это обнаружил российский экономист, изучавший связь между счастьем и благосостоянием. – РБК. Экономика , 28 мая, 2019 г. 
      • 

Video – Dr. Popov about his new article “Billionaires, millionaires, inequality, and happiness”.

• • • • Billionaires are good for happiness. – BNE Intellinews, May 29, 2019.

• Strategies of Economic Transformation. – In: Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation. Ed. by Raj Kollmorgen, Wolfgang Merkel, Hans-Jürgen Wagener. OUP, 2019, pp. 661-667.
• Exchange rate and foreign exchange reserve policies. – DOC-RI Expert Comment, April 2019.

• Political misperceptions and their causes: Suggestions for research. DOC-RI Expert Comment, December  5, 2018 (co-authored with Jurgen Grote).

• Farewell to agriculture? Productivity trends and the competitiveness of agriculture in Central Asia. – DOC-RI Expert Comment, October 11, 2018 (co-authored with Behrooz Gharleghi).

•  Regional cooperation for structural economic transformation towards sustainable development in the SPECA region.  Economic Forum, Almaty, Kazakhstan, September 20-21, 2018. SPECA/EF/2018/2. 

•  Changes in the geographical structure of trade in Central Asia. – DOC-RI Expert Comment, September 17, 2018 (co-authored with Behrooz Gharleghi).

• Macroeconomic policies for inclusive growth in Southern countries. A new DOC research project, August 28, 2018. 
•  Why do some countries have more billionaires than others? Explaining variations in the billionaire-intensity of GDP. MPRA paper No. 87119, June 2018..
  • German translation
• Accelerating Growth and Reducing Inequality: Trends and Policy Approaches. Working Paper commissioned by the Group of 24 and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung New York, July 2018 (co-authored  with Jomo Kwame Sundaram). 
• Paradoxes of happiness. Why do people feel more comfortable with high levels of inequality and high murder rates?  DOC-RI Expert Comment, June 18, 2018.
• Mortality and life expectancy in post-communist countries. What are the lessons for other countries? A concept note for a new DOC research project, June 5, 2018.
• The gendered effects of foreign investment and prolonged state ownership on mortality in Hungary: an indirect demographic, retrospective cohort study. – The Lancet Global Health, Volume 6, No.1, e95–e102, January 2018 (co-authored with 13 authors).
• Does Russia Need an Inflow of Foreign Capital? Or Does It Need to Rely on an Export-Oriented Growth Model, Based on Domestic Savings? -DOC-RI Expert Comment, Sept. 15, 2017.
• Are Developing Countries Catching Up? – Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2017 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).

Mapping a New World Order. The Rest Beyond the West. Edited by Vladimir Popov and Piotr Dutkiewicz. Edward Elgar, 2017. 

• What is so new about the emerging new world order? – Edward Elgar Blog, July 13, 2017 (co-authored with Piotr Dukiewicz).
• Book presentation at DOC RI, September 8, 2017.
• Review in WeltTrends, December 2017, Vol. 134, pp. 61-63.
• Review in Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, №18 2018 (3), pp.  293–305.
• Review by A.Knox in International Social Science Review, Vol. 94, Issue 2, August 2018.
• Review in Development, Dec. 2019.

• The effect of rapid privatisation on mortality in mono-industrial towns in post-Soviet Russia: a retrospective cohort study. – Lancet Public Health 2017 Published Online April 11, 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S2468-2667(17)30072-5 (co-authored with 15 authors).
• Долгосрочные тенденции в распределении доходов. – Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации, № 3(31), 2016 (в соавторстве с К.С. Джомо).
  • • Патрициям пора потесниться. – Эксперт,  16 декабря  2019 (№51).
• Is Globalisation Coming to an End Due to Increase of Income Inequalities? –  MPRA paper №73094 , August 2016.
• Mortality in Transition: Study Protocol of PrivMort Project, a Multilevel Convenience Cohort Study. – Irdam et al., BMC Public Health, (2016) 16:672, (co-authored with 15 authors).
• Валютный курс, инфляция и промышленная политика. – Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации, №1 (29), 2016 (в соавторстве с В.М. Полтеровичем).
• What Uzbekistan tells us about industrial policy that we did not know? – MPRA paper  67013. October 2015 (co-authored with Anis Chowdhury)
  • DESA working paper No. 147. February 2016.
• Разрыв между Югом и Западом по уровню экономического развития сокращается? –  MPRA Paper No. 65924, August 2015.
• В поисках новых источников роста. Догоняют ли развивающиеся страны  развитые? – Вопросы экономики, №10, 2015.
• Catching Up: Developing Countries in Pursuit of Growth. MPRA Paper No. 65878, August 2015.
• Income Inequalities in Perspective ESS – Document No. 46, INITIATIVE FOR POLICY DIALOGUE (IPD), COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, INTERNATIONAL LABOUR OFFICE, GENEVA, April 2015 (co-authored with Jomo Kwame Sundaram). 
  • Also published by IDEAs, May 2015.
  • Also published in Development, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2016. 
  • Short version: IPS, May 13, 2016.

• Transformation strategies (in German). Transformationsstrategien. – Handbuch Transformationsforschung. Ed. by RajKollmorgen, Wolfgang Merkel, Hans-Jürgen Wagener. Springer VS, 2015, pp. 741-747.
• Can Uzbekistan Economy Retain Its High Growth Rate? Scenarios of Economic Development in 2015-30. – PONARS Eurasia working paper, December 2014.

In Russian:

• Сохранит ли экономика Узбекистана высокие темпы роста?  Сценарии развития в 2015-2030 гг. – PONARS Eurasia Working  paper. Декабрь 2014 г.
• Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации, № 3 (27), 2015. 
• Сценарии экономического развития Узбекистана в 2015-30 гг. – Эффективное использование социально–экономического потенциала и привлечение новых источников экономического роста. Ташкент, IFMR, 2014.
• Промышленная политика – как определить отрасли, которые надо поддерживать. – Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации, №2 (22), 2014.

Mixed Fortunes: An Economic History of China, Russia and the West. Oxford University Press, April 2014.

• Grzegorz Kolodko. What one should read? – June 20, 2014. 
• Что стимулирует стремительный экономический рост. – Обсуждение в ВШЭ 29 сентября 2014 г.
• Рецензия К. Галеева. – Вопросы экономики, №11, 2014 г. 
• Reviewed for EH.Net by Tuan-Hwee Sng, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore. December 2014.
• Review by B. Milanovic for the Journal of Economic Literature, Dec. 2014 (Vol. 52, Issue 4).
• Рецензия Е. Балацкого. – Мир России, №2, 2015.
• Review by M. McLure in Economic Record, Vol. 91 (293), June 2015
• Рецензия В. А. Мельянцева. – Мир перемен, №3. 2015 г.
• Review by B. Islamov in Acta Slavica Iaponica, Volume 37 (2016).
• Review by André-Anne Côté in  Études internationales,  Volume 47, Number 4, December 2016, pp. 333-491.
• Review by S. Radchenko in Business History Review, Vol. 90 (2016).

Chinese edition: 

荣衰互鉴:中国、俄罗斯,以及西方的经济史 平装 – 2018年1月1日
弗拉基米尔·波波夫 (Vladimir Popov) (作者), 韦森 (合著者), 孙梁 (译者)

• An Economic Miracle in the Post-Soviet Space: How Uzbekistan Managed to Achieve What No Other Post-Soviet State Has. MPRA Paper No. 48723, posted 31 July 2013.
  • PONARS Eurasia working paper. August 2013
  • In Russian: Экономическое чудо переходного периода: как Узбекистану удалось то, что не удалось ни одной постсоветской экономике.
    • PONARS Eurasia working paper. Август 2013г.
    • Самая полная версия: “Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации“, № 1 (21), 2014.
• Transformational Recession. In: Handbook of Economics and Political Economy of Transitition
• Economic and social development of post-communist Russia, 1991-2014 (co-authored with P. Dutkiewicz). In:  The Social History of Post-Communist Russia. Ed. By P. Dutkiewicz, R. Sakwa, V. Kulikov. Routledge, 2018.
  • • • In Russian: Экономическое и социальное развитие посткоммунистической России в 1991-2014 гг. – “Четверть века после СССР: люди, общество, реформы”.  Издательство МГУ, 2015. Составители:. П. Дуткевич, Р. Саква, В. Куликов.
• Puzzles of Public Opinion: Why Soviet Population Supports the Transition to Capitalism Since the 1980s. – MPRA paper No. 60915, December 2014.
  • • The puzzle of public opinion: popular support for the transition to capitalism. – In: The Social History of Post-Communist Russia. Ed. By P. Dutkiewicz, R. Sakwa, V. Kulikov. Routledge, 2018.
      
      • •  In Russian: Загадки общественного мнения: почему советское население поддерживает переход к капитализму с конца 80-х годов. MPRA Paper No. 57842,  August 2014.
      • • • Российская экономика после социализма: по существу и в восприятии населения. –  Мир перемен, №4, 2014.
          • “Четверть века после СССР: люди, общество, реформы”.  Издательство МГУ, 2015. Составители:. П. Дуткевич, Р. Саква, В. Куликов.

• Socialism is dead, long live socialism! – MPRA Paper No. 54294, March 2014.
• Whither Income Inequalities? – MPRA Paper No. 52154, December 2013 (co-authored with Jomo Kwame Sundaram).
  • Chinese translation:  International Social Science Journal (Chinese edition), 2017 ( Vol. 34), No. 4, pp. 63-81.
• Transformational Recession.The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy (Oxford Handbooks). Ed. by Michael Alexeev and Shlomo Weber. Oxford  University Press, 2013.
• The Economic Situation in Present Day Russia. In: Russia after 2012: From Putin to Medvedev to Putin – Continuity, Change, or Revolution? Edited by J.L. Black, Michael Johns, Routledge, 2013.
• Глобальные дисбалансы – нетрадиционная трактовка.- Вопросы экономики, №1, 2013. Также опубликовано в книге: Финансы и реальный сектор: взаимодействие и конкуренция. Под ред. В.И.Маевского и С.Г. Кирдиной. Спб.: Нестор–История, 2013.
•  Почему Запад разбогател раньше, чем другие страны и почему Китай сегодня догоняет Запад? Новый ответ на старый вопрос. – Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации, №3 (15), 2012. 
• Coping with External – Capital and Current Account – Shocks. G-24 Policy Brief No. 70, 04/06/2012.
• Russia: austerity and deficit reduction in historical and comparative perspective. -> Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 36, January 2012, pp. 313-334. 
• Надо ли защищать права на интеллектуальную собственность.- Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации, № 3, 2011.
• Exchange Rate in the Resource Based Economy in the Short Term: The Case of Russia. Paper presented at the AAASS Conference in Salt Lake City. November 2005. Published in IUP Journal of Monetary Economics, Vol. IX, No. 3, August 2011.
• Why transition economies did worse than others in 2008-09 recession? – MPRA Paper 32388, August 2011.

• The Russian and Chinese Transition in a Wider Perspective. – In: 20 years of Transformation: Achievements, Problems and Perspectives. Ed by Grzegorz W. Kolodko and Jacek Tomkiewicz. Nova publishers, 2011. 

СТРАТЕГИИ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОГО РАЗВИТИЯ. Издательский дом Высшей школы экономики, МОСКВА, 2011

• Bridging the Gap: A New World Economic Order for Development. – In: Aftermath. A New Global Economic Order. Ed. by C. Calhoun and G. Derluguian. NYU Press, 2011 (co-authored with M. Montes).
• Developing New Measurements of State Institutional Capacity. PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 158, May 2011.
• Do We Need to Protect Intellectual Property Rights? – CEFIR and NES working paper #161. February 2011.
• To devaluate or not to devalue? How East European countries  responded to  the outflow of capital in 1997-99 and in 2008-09. – CEFIR and NES working paper #154. January 2011. Published in Acta Oeconomica, Vol. 61, No. 3, September 2011.
• Нетерпение ума, или «зачем мы морочим голову словом «социалистический». – Российский экономический журнал, №4, 2011 г. (перепечатка из № 3 за 1993 г.)
• Development Theories and Development Experience. – CEFIR and NES working paper #153. December 2010. Published in Historia e Economica / revista interdisciplinar, Brayilian Business School. 1, (2011).
• Макроэкономическая политика для модернизации российской экономики. – Глава в книге “Стратегия модернизации российской экономики“. Под ред. В.М. Полтеровича. С.-Петербург, >”Алетейя“, 2010.  
  • также опубликована в книге: «Россия “двухтысячных“: Стереоскопический взгляд». Под ред. Генри Хейла и Ивана Куриллы. М.: Планета, 2011, C. 44-77). 
• Global Imbalances: An Unconventional View. – IDEAs, Oct. 19, 2010. Also published at Iniciativa para la Transparencia Financiera, lectura 57. CEFIR and NES working paper # 160. May 2010.
• Resource abundance: A curse or blessing? – DESA Working Paper No. 93, June 2010. Co-authored with  V. Polterovich and A. Tonis.
• Is The Chinese Variety of Capitalism Really Unique? –“Transition”, May 24, 2010 (Also published in “Insight”, June 2010; “IDEAs”, October 19, 2010; CEFIR and NES working paper # 156, January 2011.
  • In Chinese: Bi Wensheng. Popov on China’s development model. Guo Wai Li Lun Dong Tai (Foreign Theoretical Trends), 2011, No. 1.
• Mortality Crisis in Russia Revisited:Evidence from Cross-Regional Comparison. – MPRA paper No. 21311, March 2010. CEFIR and NES working paper #157, January 2011.
• The Long Road to Normalcy. Where Russia Now Stands. – UNU WIDER Working Paper No. 2010/13.
  • A version of the paper in “Economies in Transition: The Long Run View”. Ed. by G. Roland. UNU-WIDER, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
  • A version of the paper in  “Russia: the challenges of transformation”. Piotr Dutkiewicz and Dmitri Trenin (Eds.), NYU Press,
    New York, 2011.
  • In Chinese: Chen Hong. Why Russia Is Becoming a Developing Country? – Guo Wai Li Lun Dong Tai (Foreign Theoretical Trends), 2011, No. 2.
  • 弗拉基米尔·波波夫：俄罗斯转型为一个发展中国家的根源. Utopia website, 2011-05-02.
• A Confluence of Circumstances or a Historical Pattern? – Problems of Economic Transition, Volume 52, Number 8 / December 2009, pp. 45 – 58.
• Why the West Became Rich before China and Why China Has Been Catching Up with the West since 1949: Another Explanation of the “Great Divergence” and “Great Convergence” Stories. – NES/CEFIR Working paper # 132, October 2009.
  • In Russian: Почему Запад разбогател раньше, чем другие страны и почему Китай сегодня догоняет Запад?Новый ответ на старый вопрос. – Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации, №3 (15), 2012. 
  • In Chinese:
    • Full version: Fazhang jingjixue yanjuiu (Study of Development Economics), No.9. Zhongguo yu eluosi chanye yu jingli fazhan bijiao yanjiu (Comparative Study of Industrial and Economic Development of China and Russia).  Center for Economic Development Research, Wuhan University. Economic Science Publisher. Beijing, Dec. 2013. 
    • Chen Hong. China’s and Russia’s transition in broader perspective. – “Guo Wai Li Lun Dong Tai” (Foreign Theoretical Trends), 2011, No. 1.
• Recovery and Adjustment After the Russian 1998 Currency Crisis. – In: After Crisis. Adjustment, Recovery and Fragility in East Asia. Edited by Jayati Ghosh & C.P. Chandrasekhar. Tulika Books,  New Delhi, 2009.
• Стечение обстоятельств или историческая закономерность? – Вопросы экономики, № 7, 2009.
• Lessons from the Transition Economies. Putting the Success Stories of the Postcommunist World into a Broader Perspective. – UNU/WIDER Research Paper No. 2009/15.
  • A version of the paper in “Development Success. Historical Accounts from More Advanced Countries”. Edited by Austin K. Fosu. OUP, 2012.
  • A version of the paper in Portuguese: Revista Tempo do Mundo, v. 1, n. 1, dez. 2009.
  • A version of the paper in “Society and Economy“, Vol. 32, No. 1, June 2010.
• Instability of Democracy as Resource Curse. – NES Working Paper # WP/2009/…Co-authored with V. Polterovich and A. Tonis.

  • Концентрация доходов, нестабильность демократии  и  экономический рост – Экономика и математические методы, 2009, том. 45, №. 1, с. 15-29 (в соавторстве с В.М.  Полтеровичем и А.С. Тонисом).

• Review of “The Universal Shape of Economic Recession and Recovery after a Shock” by Damien Challet, Sorin Solomon, Gur Yaari.- Economics. The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, February 23, 2009.
• Shock Therapy Versus Gradualism Reconsidered: Lessons From Transition Economies. – In: Economic Reforms in Developing Countries: Reach, Range, Reason. Ed. by Jose Maria Fanelli and Lyn Squire. Edward Elgar, 2008.
• Russia. – In: Macroeconomic Volatility, Institutions and Financial Architecture Ed. by J. M. Fanelli class, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 (co-authored with A. Peresetsky).
• Mechanisms of resource curse, economic policy and growth. NES Working Paper # WP/2008/082 (co-authored with V. Polterovich and A.Tonis).
  • Нестабильность демократии в странах, богатых ресурсами. – Экономический журнал Высшей школы экономики, т. 12, №2, 2008 (в соавторстве с В. Полтеровичем и А. Тонисом).
• Life Cycle of the Centrally Planned Economy: Why Soviet Growth Rates Peaked in the 1950s. Paper presented at American Economic Association Annual Meeting in Boston, January 2006. CEFIR and NES working paper # 152. November 2010.

Political Institutions And Development. Failed Expectations and Renewed Hopes. Edited by Natalia Dinello and Vladimir Popov, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007. 

• Democratization, Quality of Institutions and Economic Growth. –  TIGER Working paper  No. 102, Warsaw, July 2007 (co-authored with V. Polterovich).
  • Democracy and Growth Reconsidered: Why Economic Performance of New Democracies is not Encouraging. – MPRA Paper No. 21606, 2005.
  • Демократизация и экономический рост. – Общественные науки и современность, № 2, 2007, с. 13-27 (в соавторстве с В.М. Полтеровичем). Полный вариант.
• Shock Therapy versus Gradualism Reconsidered: Lessons from Transition Economies after 15 Years of Reforms. – Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 49, Issue 1, March 2007, pp. 1-31. 

ESSAYS / ПУБЛИЦИСТИКА

• КИТАЙ 20 ЛЕТ СПУСТЯ. – РСМД, 3 июля 2024 г.
• Новый международный банк глобального Юга будет хранить валютные резервы стран, которые не доверяют Западу. – РСМД, 21 апреля 2023.
  • The new BRICS development bank will keep foreign exchange reserves of countries that do not trust the West. – Qeios, April 6, 2023.

 Why the Chinese model remains successful? –   

Interview with Lipton Matthews,

November 1, 2021.

• The Main Contradiction of the Modern Era. – Inter Press Service, September 6, 2021.

  • Основное противоречие современной эпохи. – РСМД, 8 сентября 2021.

• А был ли коллапс? Часто можно слышать утверждения, что СССР был обречен, потому что его плановая экономика безнадежно проигрывала западной, рыночной. Это, мягко говоря, не совсем так. –  Историк,  №1 (73), январь 2021 г.
• Stop Blaming Industrial Policy. – Inter Press Service, October 6, 2020 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).
  • CODESRIA Bulletin, No. 2, 2023.
• “Populist” Macroeconomic Policy. – Inter Press Service, September 22, 2020 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).
• Myths of Soft Budget Constraint. – Inter Press Service, September 15, 2020 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).
• Dead Rats Can Raise GDP, Economists Have Lowered It. – Inter Press Service, July 21, 2020 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).
• Covid-19 Recessions: This Time It’s Really Different. – Inter Press Service, June 4, 2020 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).
  • • The Manila Times, June 5, 2020.
    • This Recession Is Really Different. – The Edge Malaysia Weekly, June 12, 2020.
• The global healthcare system after the coronavirus: Who has the responsibility to protect? – DOC-RI  website, May 12, 2020.
  • Why Some National Health Care Systems Do Better than Others. –  Inter Press Service, May 13, 2020.

    • The Manila Times, 14.05.2020.

    • CODESRIA Bulletin, No. 2, 2023.

• Learning from Asia: How to Handle Coronavirus Economic Recessions. – PONARS Eurasia  commentary, April 28, 2020.

  • In Russian: Учимся у Азии: как справиться с экономическим спадом из-за коронавируса. Комментарий ПОНАРС – Евразия, 28 апреля 2020 г.

  • 

Video:  Coronavirus Economic Recession, DOC-RI Webinar, April 9, 2020.

• • How to deal with the coronavirus recession: Social solidarity and state intervention. DOC-RI  Website, March 17, 2020.

  • State Intervention Necessary to Overcome Covid-19 Threats. Inter Press Service, March 19, 2020 (co-authored with K. S. Jomo).

  • State intervention necessary to overcome Covid-19 threats. – The Financial Express, March 22, 2020 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).

• Замедление Китая: судьба или выбор? – Эксперт, 23 марта 2020г., №13 (1157).

• Exchange Rate Undervaluation and Growth in China. – Development,  January 2020 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).
  • •  Exchange Rate Undervaluation for Export-Led Growth Promotion. – Inter Press Service, January 28, 2020 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).

• К 30-летию падения Берлинской стены. Геополитическую борьбу никто не отменял. – Мир перемен, №4, 2019.
  

  • Полный вариант – DOC-RI website, Dec. 19, 2019.

• Liberation, Not Liberalization, Responsible for China’s Economic Miracle. – Inter Press Service, November 19, 2019 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo). 

  • Understanding China’s economic miracle. – The Financial Express, November 20, 2019 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).

• • Slowdown of growth in China: Circumstances  or choice.If the past experience of economic miracles is any guide, the slowdown of growth in China should either take place in a couple of decades rather than now, or it should not happen at all. – DOC-RI website, |January 28, 2019.

    •  Why is growth slowing in China? – The Sun Daily, Dec. 16, 2019 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).

    •  Why is growth slowing in China? – Inter Press Service, Dec. 13, 2019 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).

    • What is Slowing Growth in China? – Development, January 14, 2020 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).

   

  • Infrastructure investment and growth: market failures can be corrected by the government. – DOC-RI Website, March 13, 2019.

  • Двигаться вверх. Владимир Попов — о диагностике роста. – Видео лекции в открытом университете, 2019.

• BREXIT: Are the British elite Up to the task?  Four  charts to explain why Britain will come back to the EU even if it leaves now. – DOC-RI Website, December 11, 2018.
• Failure of economics? Or the failure of (some) economists? Why economists often make bad mistakes. DOC-RI website, August 9, 2018.
• Good and bad GDP: Output fall in transition economies and the dead rat effect. – DOC-RI website, April 13, 2018.
• How the Soviet elite lost faith in socialism in the 1980s. DOC-RI commentary, March 22,  2018.
• China: Leading the Fight Against Global Warning? – DOC-RI website, November 14, 2017.
• Why Is the United States So Tough on Russia? The Answer May be in Lenin’s Brochure of 1920. – DOC-RI website, July 31, 2017.
  • Why New US Cold War with Russia Now. – IPS, August 10, 2017.
• Alcoholism Cannot Explain Russian Mortality Spike. – IPS, July 25, 2017 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo). 
• Early Death in Russia. – IPS, July 20, 2017 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).
• Post-Soviet Russian economic collapse. – IPS, June 6, 2017 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo).
• EU – Nationalism and Inequalities. – Transition, Febr. 4, 2017.
• Free Trade’s Diminishing Returns. Project Syndycate, August 6, 2016 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo). 
• Is the Russian Economy Finally Tilting East? – The World Financial Review,  July-August 2016.
• The Next Economic Miracle in the Middle East? – Group of strategic vision “Russia – Islamic world”. March 2016. 
  • Short version: site of Valdai Club.
  • Can Middle East Make Economic and Social Progress? – IPS, August 29, 2016 (co-authored with K.S. Jomo)..
• Где будет сдедующее экономическое чудо? На Ближнем Востоке? – Группа стратегического видения “Россия – Исламский мир”. Март 2016 г.
  • Краткий вариант – сайт Валдайского клуба.
• Capital Flows, Exchange Rate and Long-term Economic Growth. – IDEAs, January 22, 2016 (co-authored with Anis Chowdhury).
• What does MDGs Experience Tell Us about SDGs Challenges? – IDEAs, January 18, 2016 (co-authored with Anis Chowdhury).
• Is Russian Economy Finally Tilting East? – PONARS Policy Memo No. 376, August, 2015. 
  • In Russian: Все яйца в одной корзине: почему Россия опоздала с разворотом на Восток. – РБК, 10 сентября 2015 г.
• Не было счастья, да несчастье помогло. – “Эксперт”, № 14 (940), 29 марта 2015 г.
• Will the Russian Economy Accelerate in 2015? ECONOMIC SANCTIONS + FALL IN OIL PRICES + OUTFLOW OF CAPITAL + DEVALUATION = ECONOMIC BOOM? – PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 361, March 2015.
• Why “Capital in the 21st Century” is a Bestseller. – PONARS commentary, December 9, 2014.
• How the Soviet Elite Lost Faith in Socialism in the 1980s. – PONARS commentary, November 24, 2014.
  • In Russian: Как советская элита потеряла веру в социализм в 1980-х. Комментарий ПОНАРС – Евразия, 24 ноября 2014 г. 
• A Brief Look at Russian Economic Nostalgia and the “Equal Opportunity” vs. “Income Equality” Debate. – PONARS commentary, November 19, 2014.
  • In Russian: Краткий обзор российской экономической ностальгии и дебаты о «равных возможностях» и «равных доходах». Комментарий ПОНАРС – Евразия, 19 ноября 2014 г.
• Puzzles of Public Opinion: Why Soviet Population Supports the Transition to Capitalism Since the 1980s. – MPRA paper No. 60915, December 2014.
  • In Russian:
  • “Четверть века после СССР: люди, общество, реформы”.  Издательство МГУ, 2015 г. Под ред. Петра Дуткевича.
  • Загадки общественного мнения: почему советское население поддерживает переход к капитализму с конца 80-х годов. MPRA Paper No. 57842,  August 2014.
  • Российская экономика после социализма: по существу и в восприятии населения. –  Мир перемен, №4, 2014.
• Why the West Got Rich, Why China is Catching Up, and Why Russia is Not. – Oxford Scholarship Online,  June 27, 2014.
• Development theories and economic miracles. – OUP blog, May 14, 2014.
• Николай Петрович Шмелев: он первым выступил за реформы и первым – против того, как они проводились
  • Современная Европа, № 2, 2014.
  • “Знамя“, № 3, 2014.
  • Сайт Новой экономической ассоциации, 8 января 2014 г.
  • PONARS, January 9, 2014
  • OPEC.ru – Экспертный сайт Высшей школы экономики, 10 января 2014 г.
• Экономическое чудо переходного периода: как Узбекистану удалось то, что не удалось ни одной постсоветской экономике
  • Краткая версия: “Экономическое обозрение“,  № 7 (164), 2013 г. 
  • Узбекистан: экономическое чудо переходного периода. –  Портал “Экономическая политика”, 5 августа, 2013 г. 
  • Узбекистан: уроки политики диверсификации экономики. – Портал “Экономическая политика”, 9 августа, 2013 г. 
  • Экономическое чудо переходного периода: как Узбекистану удалось то, что не удалось ни одной постсоветской экономике. – Банки Казахстана, № 9 (195), 2013, с. 37- 48.
• “Because the Chinese growth model became so successful in ensuring catch-up development it has become extremely appealing in the developing world”. – Chapter in: “22 Ideas to Fix the World. Conversations with the World’s Foremost Thinkers. Edited By Piotr Dutkiewicz  and Richard Sakwa. NUY Press, 2013.
• Currency Wars: Why Russia and China Are Rapidly Accumulating Foreign Exchange Reserves. – PONARS Policy Memo no. 256. June 2013.
  • In Russian: Валютные войны. Зачем Россия и Китай копят иностранную валюту. ПОНАРС Евразия. Аналитическая записка № 256, Июнь 2013 г. 
• On Russian Versus Soviet Performance. No great post-Soviet achievements for Russian civilization – so far. – Global brief, June 18, 2013.
• Widening Global Income Inequality. – Economic & Political Weekly, April 27, 2013 (co-authored with  J. K. Sundaram).

• Экономический рост в развивающихся странах: теория и практика, внутренние и внешние факторы. – Байкальские чтения, 2013. Видео лекции.

• Is Russian economy likely to become a new “Asian Tiger”? – ISPI Studies, November 2012. 
• Two Evils for Russia: Record-High Oil Prices or Record-Low Prices –  Expert Opinion, Valdai Papers, October 24, 2012.
• Провокационные мысли. – Портал “Экономическая политика”, 25 мая 2012 г.
• Пот, кровь и институты. Эксперт, № 19 (802)/ 14 мая 2012 г.
• The Chinese model of economic success. – Talk at DESA, UN.  22 February 2012, New York
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• Массовые протесты в Москве: взгляд экономистов. – Вопросы экономики, № 3, 2012.
• Вступление в ВТО. Курсовой рычаг останется при нас. – Эксперт, № 46 (779) / 21 ноября 2011 г.
• Повезло с географией, не повезло с элитой. (Leveraging Geography Despite the Anti-Chinese Elitist Sentiment). – “Saldo. Business and Finance in Russia”. No. 2, 2011.
• Лыжи разъезжаются. Почему девальвация рубля неизбежна, а кризис капитализма — нет. – Русский Репортер, 3 октября 2011, № 39 (217).
• Ударники капиталистических пятилеток. В чем уникальность китайской модели капитализма. – “Русский Репортер”, 15 (193), 21 апреля 2011 г.
• Четыре ошибки макроэкономической политики (часть вторая). Комментарий на OPEC. RU 16 марта 2011.
• Четыре ошибки макроэкономической политики. Комментарий на OPEC.RU 9 марта 2011 г.
• Приватизация в теории и на практике. Комментарий на OPEC.RU 18 февраля 2011 г.
• Кризис смертности. Комментарий на OPEC.RU , 24 января 2011 г.
• В погоне за лидерами. – Интревью газете “День” 11 января 2011 г.  // На русском // На украинском //
• Россия 1990-х: обреченность на падение. Комментарий на OPEC.RU 20 декабря 2010 г.
• Russia’s Mortality Crisis. WILL WE EVER LEARN? PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 127, October 2010.
  

  Video: Exposing stress-related male mortality in transition economies. WIDER, October 20, 2010

• Чтобы хорошо жить, cвобода не нужна?- Интервью газете “Комсомольская правда“, 20 июля 2010. Полный вариант.
• The Russians are Stressed. – Global Brief. World Affairs in the 21st Century, June 15, 2010. 
• The Future Role of Central Banks…” – Global Brief. World Affairs in the 21st century. February 19, 2010.
• Ничего не предопределено? Все поправимо? О книге Г. Колодко “Мир в движении”. М.: Магистр, 2009. – “Пушкин”, № 4, 2009. 
• Победный оскал дракона. –  «Эксперт» №1 (687)/28 декабря 2009 г.
• Плавающий рубль. Комментарий на OPEC.RU 5 октября 2009 г.
• Второе послание президента – что сбудется. Комментарий на OPEC.RU 17 сентября 2009 г.
• Russia and the West. Linking Economic and Foreign Policy. – In: From Putin to Medvedev. Continuity or Change? Ed. by J.L. Black and M. Johns. Vol. 10. Canada-Russia Series. Penumbra Press, Manitock, ON, 2009 (co-authored with P. Dutkiewicz). 
• The Long Road to Normalcy: Where Russia Now Stands. – Global Brief web site, May 25, 2009.
• Democracy in Today’s World. – Review of Polterovich and Popov article “Democratization, Quality of Institutions and Economic Growth” by Li Junsheng. – Social Sciences Abroad, No. 4, 2009 (in Chinese).
• What makes the current crisis unique? Is it overextension of financial instruments? – Transition, April 21, 2009.
• На те же грабли. Российская экономика может повторить сценарий 1998 года. Top Manager, февраль 2009 г.
• Memories about the Future: The Second Edition of the 1998 Crisis. – Russian Analytical Digest, No. 54, February 3, 2009.
• Chen Hong. Popov on Russia’s Economic and Social  Development Outlook. – Guo Wai Li Lun Dong Tai (Foreign Theoretical Trends), January 2009 (In Chinese). 
• Воспоминания о будущем: второе издание драмы “Кризис 1998 года». – Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации, №1, 2009. – Полный вариант.
• Закат плановой экономики. – Эксперт, № 1 (640), 29 декабря 2008 г. 
• Russia and World Financial Crisis. – XXI Century Business Herald, October 17, 2008 (in Chinese).
• After 10 Years of Growth, the Russian Economy May Be Losing Steam. – Russian Analytical Digest, No. 48, October 17, 2008. 
• A Curse or a Blessing? What to Expect from a Typical Developing Resource-Abundant State. – PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo No. 32, 2008.
• Resurgent Russian economy? Putin’s policy without Putin? – International Journal, Spring 2008.
• Мор без СПИДа и цунами. – Эксперт, №19 (608), 12 мая 2008 г.
• Getting better? Or getting worse? Murder rate under Putin. – EURUS Newsletter, Vol. 25 (2) – Spring 2008.
• Следите за курсом. Какие валютные резервы нужны России? –  Политический журнал, № 1 (178) / 21 января 2008 г.
• A Putin policy without Putin after 2008? – Caijing  magazine (Beijing), Special issue, December 2007. In English. In Chinese.
• «Пекинский консенсус» против «вашингтонского»: «азиатские ценности» более конкурентоспособны, чем либерализм? – Прогнозис, № 2 (10), 2007 г.
• Почему снижались темпы роста советской экономики в брежневский период. – Неприкосновенный запас, № 2 (52), 2007.
• RUSSIA REDUX? – New Left Review, No. 44, March-April 2007 (Tony Wood. Contours of the Putin Era. A Response to Vladimir Popov).
  • Spanish translation  (NLR, No. 44, May-June 2007).
  • Chinese translation  (Utopia website, June 19, 2007).
  • Norwegian translation  (RØDT!, #4, 2007, pp. 48-56).
  • Italian translation  (NLR, 14.10.2008).
  • Turkish translation (NLR, 2007).

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