Knowledge for Evidence-based Economic Policy: Supply and Demand

Abstract

Based on the idea of a positive relationship between the growth of scientific economic knowledge and economic development, through the prism of the types of discourse in which Russian researchers are involved, the issue of barriers to building an effective system of economic science management, which is necessary for evidence-based economic policy, is discussed. It is necessary for evidence-based economic policy. The first type of discourse is intradisciplinary and is associated with the interaction of various research programs. The second and third types of discourse – internal and external - have a geographical dimensionand reflect the target audience and the research agenda. Some principles are formulated on the basis of which an effective system of management of Russian economic science in terms of the content of ongoing research can be built. The features, comparative advantages and failures of the Coasean approach in economic research are noted in the context of developing recommendations for economic policy in the light of the interaction of competence centers with government bodies.