Abel Aganbegyan

Abel Aganbegyan die Malevich (Russian Абел Гезевич Аганбегян; born October 8, 1932 in Tbilisi, Georgia ) is a Russian economist.

Biography

The descendant of Armenian and Hungarian ancestors Aganbegyan began after the school a degree in economics at the State Institute of Economics in Moscow. After graduation, he was appointed professor at the Novosibirsk State University later. From there he moved from 1967 to 1985 as director of the Institute for Industrial Production in Novosibirsk, where he and his colleagues models for the management of the national economy of the Soviet Union drew together in the late 1980s.

As chairman of several national committees and councils he was eventually also personal adviser on economic issues of Mikhail Gorbachev, whom he had previously met through its economic and social policy adviser Tatyana Zaslavskaia. In this role, he was one of Gorbachev's closest employees in its reform programs and had thus already early influence on the initiated perestroika. As part of a Soviet- American exchange program of the Esalen Institute, he came in 1988 as one of the most influential Soviet economists in the United States to raise awareness of the needs for the restructuring of the Soviet economy. However, in late 1989 he increasingly lost influence.

In addition, he is a member of the editorial board also next Zaslavskaia the sociological journal The Messenger of social opinion.

Swell

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary, pp. 16, 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2
• Chambers Dictionary of World History, pp. 10, 2002, ISBN 0-550-13000-4

• University teachers ( Novosibirsk State University )
• Economist ( 20th century)
• Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Person (Tbilisi )
• Russian
• Armenian
• Born in 1932
• Man