Recognition of the crisis in our economic theory has now become not only a mandatory thesis but also âgood formâ among people who in former times were not ashamed to call themselves political economists and even Marxists. And there are fundamental reasons for this.

The need to make the transition to economic methods of management, a task advanced to the forefront by the decisions of the Twenty-seventh Congress and January 1987 Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee, underscores the need for finding a precise answer to the question: What are economic methods?...

(on the Article by E. Gaidar and V. Mau «Marxism: Between the Scientific Theory and "Secular Religion"») The authors criticize the main idea of the paper by E. Gaydar and V. Mau (VE, 2004, No 5, 6) concerning the possibility of partial utilization of Marxian ideas in the framework of the...

The "marketocentric" economic theory is now dominating in modern science (similar to Ptolemeus geocentric model of the universe in the Middle Ages). But market economy is only one of different types of economic systems which became the main mode of resources allocation and motivation only in the...