Topic of the Issue: World Financial and Economic Crisis

World Bank

Russian Economic Report No 17

Vladimir MAU

Crisis at the Initial Phase: Causes and Problems

Abel AGANBEGYAN

The Lessons of the Nowadays Financial and Economic Crisis (Personal and, Quite Possible, Premature Notes)

Alexandr RADYGIN

State Capitalism and Financial Crisis: Factors of Interaction, Costs and Prospects

Kirill ROGOV

Economic Growth 2000–2007: Basic Stages, Factors and Patterns

Alexandr ABRAMOV

Russian Stock Market Crisis of 2008: External Factors and Internal Mechanisms

Olga ALLILUEVA

Recalling the Lessons of 1998

Nobel Prize in Economics

Paul KRUGMAN

Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession

Classics of Economics

Joseph T. SALERNO

Money and Gold in the 1920s and 1930s: An Austrian View

Richard H. TIMBERLAKE

Austrian Inflation, Austrian Money, and Federal Reserve Policy

Joseph SALERNO

Inflation and Money: A Reply to Timberlake

Richard H. TIMBERLAKE

Final Comment on Salerno’s Monetary Program

Contents of the Journal 2008