Anders Åslund ( Swedish Anders Åslund , Swedish pronunciation [andəʂ oːslʉnd] ; born February 17, 1952 [2] ) is a Swedish economist and diplomat. Specialist in the economics of Eastern Europe, especially Russia and Ukraine. Doctor of Philosophy (1982), professor.
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Associate Professor at Georgetown University (USA), Fell of the Atlantic Council (USA), previously a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics (USA; 2006–2015), in 1994–2005. worked at the Carnegie Endowment , and from 1989–1994. - Professor and founding director of the Stockholm Institute for the Transition Economy of the Stockholm School of Economics .
Oslund is known for his criticisms of Putin's politics [3] .
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Biography
He graduated from Stockholm University (Bachelor of Arts). He received a master's degree in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics . He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Oxford in 1982 [4] .
He was in diplomatic work in Kuwait , Geneva , Poland , Moscow , the latter worked at the Swedish embassy in 1984-1987.
In 1989-1994 Professor and founding director of the Stockholm Institute for Transition Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics. In 1994-2005 at the Carnegie Endowment , until 2003, a leading researcher, and then director of the Russian and Eurasian programs [5] .
- In 1991–1994 worked with Jeffrey Sachs as adviser to Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar .
- In 1994-1997 Economic Advisor to the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma under various governments [6] .
- In 1998-2004 advised President of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev , who was overthrown as a result of the Tulip Revolution [7] .
In 2006–2015 Senior Researcher, Peterson Institute of International Economics (USA) [5] . Nowadays, he is a senior fellow resident of the Eurasian Center of the Atlantic Council (USA). He also worked at the Kennan Institute (USA) and Brookings Institution (USA) [4] [5] .
Co-chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Kiev School of Economics in 2003-2012. and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE, Warsaw ) [5] and the Council of International Advisers of the Institute for the Transitional Period of the Bank of Finland [4] .
Since 2016, an independent member of the supervisory board of the Ukrainian bank Credit Dnepr, controlled by the Ukrainian billionaire Viktor Pinchuk [8] . Since 2018, an independent member of the Supervisory Board of Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia). Senior Advisor to the Canadian-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce (CUCC) [9] .
In addition to his native Swedish, he speaks English, German, French, Russian and Polish [4] .
He has spoken on the pages Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, American Interest, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times , and the Wall Street Journal [4] .
Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences [4] . Honorary Professor of the Kyrgyz National University [4] .
He was awarded the Golden Badge of the Order of Merit to the NDP (July 1991), the 4th degree of the Cross of Recognition of Latvia (4.5.2013) [4] . Laureate of the Leontief Prize (St. Petersburg, 2008) [4] .
Statements
- About Russia
Oslund stated that it was Russia that unleashed the war in Georgia and that it should be expelled from the G8 [10] . In 2004, he believed that “Putin’s days are numbered” [11] . In 2009, it declared Russia's weakness and its impossibility to influence Ukraine [12] , but already in 2014 - about the “iron embrace of Russia” [13] . In February 2010, he announced the death of the Putin model [14] . He calls the Customs Union the “neo-imperialist project” of Putin [15]
| Russia is controlled by a small group from St. Petersburg (2005) [16] |
Oslund persistently campaigned for liberal market economic reforms and democracy in Russia. He argued that Russia would sooner or later become normal democracy [17] . He also criticized President Putin’s economic policies and considered it unsustainable in the long run. His criticism often focused on inefficiency and poor management of Gazprom. [eighteen]
- About Ukraine
In 2005, Oslund welcomed the resignation of Yulia Tymoshenko , believing that she “discredited the Ukrainian authorities” [19] , but later he changed his mind [12] .
In 2013, Oslund announced his support for Ukraine’s European integration [20] [21] . However, in 2007, he called EU membership “the pursuit of windmills” [22] . He believed that Ukraine should accept the conditions of the IMF , and the regime of Yanukovych , whose support, according to Oslund, are two oligarchic clans of Akhmetov and Firtash [23] , accused of theft and populism [24] [25] .
2018. He expressed the opinion that Ukrainian officials are not interested in the fight against corruption, because they control the economy and profit from it: “Because they are interested in corruption, they live with it. Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko will probably get a lot of money for he’s not fighting corruption. If he fought corruption, he would not have earned anything except his small salary. " [26]
A few hours later, Oslund refused his statements about the Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko. [27]
- About Belarus
Oslund predicted Belarus defaulted in 2011, he called Belarus “the last Soviet economy in Europe” and criticized the increase in wages in the country. [28]
Criticism
Some researchers (Dr. V. G. Krasnov [ clarify ] ) believe that Oslund is one of the architects of “wild capitalism” in Russia [29] .
Works
- The author of 15 books [30] . Editor of 16 books.
- Books
- Ukraine: What went wrong and how to fix it (Ukraine: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It), (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2015)
- How Latvia survived the financial crisis, (written with Valdis Dombrowski), (How Latvia Came Through the Financial Crisis), (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2010)
- And the last will be the first. The financial crisis in Eastern Europe (The Last Shall be the First: the East European Financial Crisis, 2008-10), ( Thought , 2011)
- How Ukraine became a market economy and democracy (English How Ukraine became a Market Economy and Democracy), (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2009)
- Russian Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reforms were Successful and Democracy Failed (Russian Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed ).
- How Capitalism Was Built: The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia , (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc ( Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc ), (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
- How Russia became a market economy ( How Russia Became a Market Economy ) (Brookings, 1995)
- Shock therapy in Eastern Europe and Russia ( English Post Communist Economic Revolutions: How Big a Bang?), ( Republic , 1994)
- Gorbachev’s Struggle for Economic Reform, Gorbachev's Struggle for Economic Reform , 2nd ed. (Cornell University Press, 1991)
- Private enterprises in Eastern Europe ( English Private Enterprise in Eastern Europe ), (Macmillan, 1985).
- The problem of economic growth in Europe, (written with Simeon Dzhankov), (English Europe's Growth Challenge), (Oxford University Press, 2017).
- Russian clan capitalism: the path from a market economy to kleptocracy, (Russian Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy), (Yale University Press, 2019).
- Edited books
- Market Socialism or the Restoration of Capitalism ? , (Eng. Market Socialism or the Restoration of Capitalism? ), (Cambridge University Press, 1992).
- Post-Soviet Economy: Soviet and Western Perspectives , ( The Post-Soviet Economy: Soviet and Western Perspectives ), (Pinter, London and St. Martin's, New York, 1992).
- Change in the economic system in Russia, (edited by Richard Layard), ( The Change of Economic System in Russia ), (Pinter, London and St. Martin's, New York, 1993).
- Economic Transformation in Russia, (English Economic Transformation in Russia ), (Pinter, London, 1994).
- Russian Economic Reform at Risk (Pinter, London, 1995).
- Social policy during the transition to a market: problems and solutions, (edited with Mikhail Dmitriev), (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1996).
- The Transformation of Russia in the 1990s (Russian Transformation in the 1990s ), (Pinter, London and Washington, 1998).
- Russia after Communism (English Russia After Communism ), (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999).
- Economic Reform in Ukraine: An Incomplete Agenda, (edited by Martha Brill Alcott), (Eng. Economic Reform in Ukraine: The Unfinished Agenda ), (Armonk, New York: ME Sharpe, 2000).
- Essays on the World Economy: Outstanding World Economists at the Carnegie Moscow Center (edited by Tatyana Maleva), (Carnegie Moscow Center, 2003).
- Russia versus the USA and Europe - or the << strategic triangle >> ?, (edited by Hannes Adomeit), (Stiftung für Wissenschaft und Politik and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005).
- Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough (edited by Michael McFaul), ( Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough ), (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006).
- Europe after expansion (edited by Marek Dombrowski), (English Europe after Enlargement ), (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
- Challenges of Globalization: Imbalances and Growth, (edited by Marek Dombrowski), (English Challenges of Globalization: Imbalances and Growth), (Peterson Institute for International Economics ).
- Russia after the global economic crisis, (edited by Sergey Guriev and Andrey Kuchin), (English after the Global Economic Crisis ), (Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Strategic Studies, 2010), (Russian translation - Russia after the crisis), (Alpina Business Books, 2011).
- The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory of Capitalism over Communism , (edited by Simeon Dyankov), ( The Great Rebirth: Lessons from the Victory of Capitalism over Communism ), (Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2014), (Ukrainian translation: Veliké vidrodzhennya), (Vidavnitsvo of the Old Leo, 2015), (translated into Bulgarian: Trace of the wall), (Kolibri, 2015), (translated into Bulgarian: Great teacher), (Libek, 2016).
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 102886156 // General Normative Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Anders Åslund (English) // Wikipedia. - 2018-02-27.
- ↑ Germany was shamed for its position on the gas war between Russia and Ukraine . Lenta.ru (March 7, 2018).
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Anders Åslund . Atlantic Council. Date of treatment February 3, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Anders Åslund
- ↑ Realities and prospects of Ukraine according to the Swedish economist Anders Oslund
- ↑ Expert Advisor in focus: Anders Aslund (Business, Russia)
- ↑ Former IMF head joins Pinchuk Bank Supervisory Board / News / Finance.UA
- ↑ http://cucc.ca/procucc/stars-radi/?lang=uk
- ↑ InoSMI.ru: It is necessary to expel Russia from the G8 , 05.16.2012
- ↑ Anders Aslund: Putin's Days Numbered (Der Standard, Austria)
- ↑ 1 2 Anders Aslund: “The most professional today is Julia Vladimirovna”
- ↑ Economist Anders Aslund: The collapse in Ukraine is postponed until the presidential election
- ↑ It seems that the end of Putin’s model is not far off (The Washington Post, USA)
- ↑ Anders Aslund: The worse the economy in Ukraine, the cheaper the Yanukovych Family will buy assets. I think this is his main goal.
- ↑ Anders Aslund: Ukraine is the last straw
- ↑ Nelson, Lynn D. and Irina Y. Kuzes. Property to the People: The Struggle for Radical Economic Reform in Russia. - New York: ME Sharpe, 1994.
- ↑ Aslund, Anders. How Russia Became a Market Economy. - Washington: Brookings, 1995.
- ↑ Advisor to the US President Anders Aslund: “Tymoshenko has discredited Ukrainian power in the eyes of the United States” (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment February 14, 2014. Archived February 22, 2014.
- ↑ Ukraine's Choice: European Association Agreement or Eurasian Union? .
- ↑ “It's just bullying” - Anders Aslund about Moscow’s relations with Kiev
- ↑ Anders Aslund: “Stop chasing EU membership windmills”
- ↑ Anders Aslund: “Yanukovych steals as much as he can”
- ↑ Ukraine is better off cutting costs rather than keeping the hryvnia - Oslund
- ↑ The Basket Case . Foreign policy Date of treatment December 2, 2015.
- ↑ Aslund: The Ukrainian government does not fight corruption, it lives on from this . Ukrainian truth. Date of treatment February 2, 2018.
- ↑ Updated: Aslund vіdklikav svіy komentar schodo Lutsenko. Ranishe vіn declaring, "if Lutsenko vіdkriva company, vin call a breach" (Ukrainian) . VOA. Date of treatment March 22, 2019.
- ↑ Anders Aslund: The default of Belarus is inevitable . UDF.BY | News of Belarus. Date of treatment December 2, 2015.
- ↑ Who prescribed Russian shock therapy?
- ↑ Anders Åslund . Atlantic Council. Date of treatment February 3, 2016.
Links
- On the website of the Atlantic Council (USA) . Date of treatment February 3, 2016. (English)
- On the website of the Peterson Institute of International Economics (USA )
- Anders Aslund