Economist who began with NEP studies and framed the Kosygin-reform debate
The reform stalled, the country entered a period of stagnation, and that stagnation ultimately predetermined the decline of the socialist economy in the USSR.
Yuri Goland is a Russian economist whose work began with the study of the Soviet New Economic Policy (NEP) and monetary reform. After graduating from Moscow State University's physics faculty, he worked for decades in physical-sciences research before turning to economics in the 1990s, focusing on reconstructing the history of NEP-era policy debates. In 2010 he co-authored with Alexander Nekipelov 'The Kosygin Reform: A Missed Chance or a Mirage?', which crystallized the central question of post-Soviet historiography on the reform.
Career Timeline
- 1967Graduated Physics Faculty, Moscow State University
- 1967–1995Researcher, Institute of Physical Problems, USSR/Russian Academy of Sciences
- 1991Published Crises That Destroyed the NEP
- 1995–2002Expert Institute, Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
- 2002–2005Institute for International Economic and Political Studies, RAS
- 2005–Leading Researcher, Institute of Economics, RAS
- 2006Published Discussions on Economic Policy in the Years of Monetary Reform 1921–1924
- 2010Co-authored 'The Kosygin Reform: A Missed Chance or a Mirage?' with Nekipelov