January 21, 1999. Board Members discussed matters at the regular session of the Economics Department, Russian Academy of Sciences. ECAAR-Russia Co-Chair Stanislav Menshikov reported on the State of Research on Restructuring an Converting the Russian Military-Industrial Complex. For a summary of the discussion (in Russian) see ECAAR-Rusia Newsletter No. 1
January 20, 1999. A joint US-Russian seminar was held on "Commercialising R&D in the Military-Industrial Complex". For a summary of the discussion (in Russian) see ECAAR-Russia Newsletter No. 1.
January 19, 1999. ECAAR-Russia members participated in a joint US-Russian seminar on reforming Russian enterprises which took place at the Institute of Economic and Political Studies, Moscow.
March 10-11, 1999. A full page describing ECAAR-Russia activities was published in Moscow newspaper "Slovo"
April 21, 1999. ECAAR-Russia co-chair Stanislav Menshikov participated in a seminar
of the International Schiller Institute in Bonn, Germany. He spoke on global effects of
the NATO war against Yugoslavia. See ECAAR-Russia Newsletter No. 1 for a summary of his
paper.
Briefly about ECAAR-Russia activity (June 1999 - January 2000)
June 1999. EDCAAR-US chair James K. Galbraith visited Moscow. He participated in the joint US-Russian seminar on "Factors of Economic Growth in Russia". Other participants were ECAAR-Russia board members Academicians Dmitry Lvov, Nikolai Petrakov, Oleg Bogomolov, Alexander Nekipelov, Valery Makarov, Professors Stanislav Menshikov, Vladimir Polterovich Georgy Kleiner. For a detailed summary of the discussion and some of the papers see ECAAR-Russia Newsletter No. 2.
While in Moscow, James Galbraith gave a lecture at the CEMI on "Inequality of Income and Wealth Distribution in the US and Europe'. He also gave an interview to the journal "Problems of Theory and Practice of Management".
August 1999. Members of ECAAR-Russia participated in an international seminar in Wiesbaden, Germany on "The World Financial Crisis and International Security". Participants included scholars from Germany, Russia, USA, Austria, France, China, India, Armenia. The discussion centred on dangers emanating from global financial instability and on the trend towards multipolarity. Among issues discussed were prospects for building the Eurasian Bridge from China to Western Europe as a factor of increasing co-operation and growth of the nations of the region. Another point of mutual interest were prospects for creating the Russia-China-India triangle as a factor working against unipolarity. Participants also discussed aspects of international co-operation in the post-war reconstruction of the Yugoslav economy.
September 1999. As agreed in Moscow in June Oleg Bogomolov, Alexander Nekipelov and Stanislav Menshikov submitted to ECAAR-US their extended papers for publication in a joint volume on the Russian economy. Full texts of these papers are av available in papers on the main menu.
November 1999. Stanislav Menshikov visited Aalborg University, Denmark to discuss issues of co-operation between Russian and Danish scholars and participate in an international seminar on socio-economic aspects of globalization. Participants included scholars from China, UK, Ethiopia, Turkey, Thailand, Cambodia. Professor Menshikov also lectured on economic problems in Russia and on the role of the United Nations in the area of security and economic development.
December 1999 - February 2000. Work on creating ECAAR-Russia web site finalized. We
wish to thank all participants and particularly members of the FAST Centre in Moscow
(see their web site at http://www.fast.ane.ru/)
January 2000. ECAAR-US organized a panel on the Russian economy in Boston, US.
Papers were given by ECAAR-Russia board member Alexander Nekipelov, as well as US scholars
Marshall Goldman, Joseph Stiglitz, David Ellerman. Nobel Laureate Douglass North was
discussant and Mike Intriligator both chaired the session and acted as discussant. Another
panel held in Boston was on Peace Economics where participants were Jacques Fontanel of
France, Akira Hattori of Japan, Paul Dunne of the UK, and Biyan Solomon of Canada. These
panels were held as part of the annual meetings of the American Economic Association. We
hope to be able to post some of these papers on our web site very soon (check with papers on the main menu).
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