Age of Economics: in the first part of this project a diverse group of global thinkers answers 8 fundamental questions about economics and capitalist civilization. (Interview number 52)
About Grigory Yavlinsky
Russian. Economist and politician. Author. Professor Higher School of Economics University, Moscow. Leader of the opposition Liberal political party.
Grigory Alexeyevich Yavlinsky (Russian: Григо́рий Алексе́евич Явли́нский; born 10 April 1952) is a Russian economist and politician. He is best known as the author of the 500 Days Programme, a plan for the transition of the Soviet regime to a free-market economy, and for his leadership of the social-liberal Yabloko party. He ran twice for Russia’s presidency – in 1996, against Boris Yeltsin, finishing fourth with 7.3% of the vote; and in 2000, against Vladimir Putin, finishing third with 5.8%. He did not run in 2004 or 2008, after his party failed to cross the 5% threshold in the 2003 Duma elections. In 2012 presidential election he was prevented from running for president by Russian authorities, despite collecting 2 million signatures of Russian citizens for his candidacy, as was demanded by law. Yavlinsky was Yabloko’s nominee for President of Russia in the 2018 presidential election. Yavlinsky holds a PhD in economics from the Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; his doctoral dissertation was entitled “The socio-economic system of Russia and the problem of its modernization.” He is a professor in the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Yavlinsky speaks Russian, Ukrainian and English.
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Music: J.S. Bach, from The Well-Tempered Clavier. Kimiko Ishizaka, piano – Interview by Fabio Dondero, Julian Karaguesian and Shaun Sellers – Video by Fabio Dondero