Discussion of the Book, "The History of Russian Economic Thought," in the Institute of Economics, U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences

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Abstract In the Institute of Economics, Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. an enlarged session of the Scientific Council on the history of the national economy and economic schools was held, together with representatives of Academies of Science, of Union Republics, scientific research organizations, universities and other institutes of higher education of the country. In this session the book 'History of Russian Economic Thought" (Volume I, Part One) was discussed as well as a project of the long-range plan of scientific research in the U.S.S.R. on problem of "The History of Economic Thought in the 19th and 20th Centuries." A report was presented by D. F. Virnyka on the basic tendencies of economic thought in the Ukraine in the 19th century and in the post-reform period. Communications of representatives of Institutes of Economics in the Republic Academies of Sciences were presented on the status and perspectives of work on the study of economic thought of the peoples of the U.S.S.R.