Formation of the Russian model of evidence-based economic policy

Abstract

The article records the fact that the economic policy of the Russian state is dominated not by scientifi c and evidencebased, but by political and opportunistic and purely ideological approaches. The introduction and long-term continuation of the fl at income tax scale of Russians associated with an attempt to implement the Laff er’s eff ect are perceived as an example of a false- and evidence-based approach in the implementation of fi scal policy. A major defect in the mechanism of state regulation of the economics implemented in Russia is the focus on global patterns of socio-economic development at the expense of using the specific patterns. This is expressed in the insuffi cient attention to the ratchet eff ect during the antiinfl ationary regulation of the national economics and the deliberately non-equivalent change of demand infl ation to proposal infl ation. The anti-crisis measures of the government by E. Primakov with conclusions about the need for their productive use in modern conditions to improve the quality of evidence-based economic policy are considered a signifi cant component of the Russian register of the "best practices".