Some patterns of the transfer of economic ideas between Russia and the West

Abstract

There is a certain pattern existent in the interrelations of Western and Russian economic thought. It consists of import of Western ideas, their modification under the influence of specific Russian factors, and following influence of modified theories on the Western thought. Among such factors are the special emphasis on social questions and moral norms, the emphasis on spiritual, non-material world, the importance of the peasant question, the great influence of Marxism, a marked mathematical and statistical inclinations of Russian economist and the unique experience of building a centrally planned economy.