Ivan Boldyrev
Biographic Data
| ID | 982683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivan Boldyrev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivan |
| FAMILY NAME | Boldyrev |
| SIGNATURE | BOLDYREV I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4009-6708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Rise and Fall” of the Walrasian Program in Economics
This paper aims at understanding social practices and institutions that ensured the transnational diffusion, recognition, and renewal of the research program in the General Equilibrium Theory (GET), in spite of multiple critics and apparent theoretical dead ends. First, we trace the main conceptual developments of the Walrasian GET program since the 1950s and thus elaborate on its intellectual identity. Then, based on a systematic study of the ed…
The Frame for the Not-Yet Existent
This article tells the story of the first international topological conference in Moscow (1935), an outstanding event that, for the first time, brought together the most notable American, European, and Soviet mathematicians, including those who would later play decisive roles in the mathematization of economics: John von Neumann, Leonid Kantorovich, and Albert W. Tucker. The fact that Kantorovich was in contact with von Neumann and his closest co…
“Rise and Fall” of the Walrasian Program in Economics
This paper aims at understanding social practices and institutions which ensured the transnational diffusion, recognition and renewal of the research program in General Equilibrium Theory, in spite of multiple critics and apparent theoretical dead ends. First, we are tracing the main conceptual developments of the Walrasian GET program since the 1950s and thus elaborate on its intellectual identity. Then, based on a systematic study of the educat…
Interpreting Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Programming the USSR
In the wake of Stalin's death, many Soviet scientists saw the opportunity to promote their methods as tools for the engineering of economic prosperity in the socialist state. The mathematician Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986) was a key activist in academic politics that led to the increasing acceptance of what emerged as a new scientific persona in the Soviet Union. Rather than thinking of his work in terms of success or failure, we propose to see …
Realities of Formalization
In the postwar USSR, there were a few scattered research groups engaged in research most closely resembling "Western" mainstream economics. Inspired by the new sciences of the artificial, these groups were able to make important contributions to various fields of economic theory. This article focuses on the story of one group created by the control engineer Mark Aizerman at the Institute of Control Sciences in Moscow. It discusses the origins and…
Economic Knowledge in Socialism, 1945-89
n Contains fulltext :\n 215421.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Conflicting Patterns of Thought in the Russian Debate on Modernisation and Innovation 2008–2013
Contains fulltext : 181950.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
The cultures of mathematical economics in the postwar Soviet Union
Risk in General Equilibrium
This paper reconstructs the ontology of finance as it is presented in Kenneth Arrow’s general equilibrium model of contingent commodities. The fundamental notion of modern finance, ‘Arrow securities’ (paying one monetary unit contingent upon a certain future event and nothing otherwise) is considered an elementary Luhmannian code of the economic. The performative, self-implementing tendencies in general equilibrium analysis are reinterpreted in v…
On (im)permeabilities
While the history of Cold War social and human sciences has become an immensely productive line of inquiry and has generated some exciting research, a lot remains still to be done in studying more deeply the known stories, venturing into the unknown ones and, in particular, looking in greater detail at the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain. In our expository introduction to this special issue, we demonstrate how its articles enhance our understandi…
History and (general) equilibrium
General Equilibrium Theory Behind the Iron Curtain
In this article we address the story of developments in general equilibrium theory in the Soviet Union during the 1970s through the lens of a single biography. The Soviet advances in mathematical economics give an occasion to reflect on the extension of the Walrasian paradigm to nonmarket societies, as well as on the ideological effects of general equilibrium theory and its interpretations in a Soviet context. Our contribution is focused on the d…
Moral Sentiments, Institutions, and Civil Society
In his Idea of Justice , Amartya Sen compares the two basic approaches to evaluating institutions, transcendental institutionalism and realization-focused comparisons . Referring to Adam Smith's Impartial Spectator , he argues in favor of the latter and proposes the principle of open impartiality. However, this cannot solve the tension between universalism and contextualization of values that Sen has inherited from Smith. Based on recent Hegel sc…
Economy as a Social System
Niklas Luhmann's (1927-1998) ambitious research project was aimed not only at describing society as a global social system, but it also analyzed various subsystems (including an economic one). The article assesses Luhmann's vision of the economy, summarized mainly in his Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft, wherein he addresses basic economic notions: the economic system, money, prices, rationality, and the market. I then interpret his ideas in the conte…
Hegel’s “Objective Spirit”, extended mind, and the institutional nature of economic action
The History of Equilibrium Theory in 1960-1990 and the Economics and Math Perspective in the Soviet Economic Theory
Niklas Luhmann and Economics
Many formal organizational structures arise as reflections of rationalized institutional rules.The elaboration of such rules in modern states and societies accounts in part for the expansion and increased complexity of formal organizational structures.Institutional rules function as myths which organizations incorporate, gaining legitimacy, resources, stability, and enhanced survival prospects.Organizations whose structures become isomorphic with…
Economic Knowledge in Socialism, 1945-89
n Contains fulltext :\n 215421.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
The cultures of mathematical economics in the postwar Soviet Union
General Equilibrium Theory Behind the Iron Curtain
In this article we address the story of developments in general equilibrium theory in the Soviet Union during the 1970s through the lens of a single biography. The Soviet advances in mathematical economics give an occasion to reflect on the extension of the Walrasian paradigm to nonmarket societies, as well as on the ideological effects of general equilibrium theory and its interpretations in a Soviet context. Our contribution is focused on the d…
Programming the USSR
In the wake of Stalin's death, many Soviet scientists saw the opportunity to promote their methods as tools for the engineering of economic prosperity in the socialist state. The mathematician Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986) was a key activist in academic politics that led to the increasing acceptance of what emerged as a new scientific persona in the Soviet Union. Rather than thinking of his work in terms of success or failure, we propose to see …
On (im)permeabilities
While the history of Cold War social and human sciences has become an immensely productive line of inquiry and has generated some exciting research, a lot remains still to be done in studying more deeply the known stories, venturing into the unknown ones and, in particular, looking in greater detail at the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain. In our expository introduction to this special issue, we demonstrate how its articles enhance our understandi…
Economy as a Social System
Niklas Luhmann's (1927-1998) ambitious research project was aimed not only at describing society as a global social system, but it also analyzed various subsystems (including an economic one). The article assesses Luhmann's vision of the economy, summarized mainly in his Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft, wherein he addresses basic economic notions: the economic system, money, prices, rationality, and the market. I then interpret his ideas in the conte…
Hegel’s “Objective Spirit”, extended mind, and the institutional nature of economic action
Conflicting Patterns of Thought in the Russian Debate on Modernisation and Innovation 2008–2013
Contains fulltext : 181950.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
Moral Sentiments, Institutions, and Civil Society
In his Idea of Justice , Amartya Sen compares the two basic approaches to evaluating institutions, transcendental institutionalism and realization-focused comparisons . Referring to Adam Smith's Impartial Spectator , he argues in favor of the latter and proposes the principle of open impartiality. However, this cannot solve the tension between universalism and contextualization of values that Sen has inherited from Smith. Based on recent Hegel sc…
The History of Equilibrium Theory in 1960-1990 and the Economics and Math Perspective in the Soviet Economic Theory
Niklas Luhmann and Economics
Many formal organizational structures arise as reflections of rationalized institutional rules.The elaboration of such rules in modern states and societies accounts in part for the expansion and increased complexity of formal organizational structures.Institutional rules function as myths which organizations incorporate, gaining legitimacy, resources, stability, and enhanced survival prospects.Organizations whose structures become isomorphic with…
Hegel’s “Objective Spirit”, extended mind, and the institutional nature of economic action
Moral Sentiments, Institutions, and Civil Society
In his Idea of Justice , Amartya Sen compares the two basic approaches to evaluating institutions, transcendental institutionalism and realization-focused comparisons . Referring to Adam Smith's Impartial Spectator , he argues in favor of the latter and proposes the principle of open impartiality. However, this cannot solve the tension between universalism and contextualization of values that Sen has inherited from Smith. Based on recent Hegel sc…
Economy as a Social System
Niklas Luhmann's (1927-1998) ambitious research project was aimed not only at describing society as a global social system, but it also analyzed various subsystems (including an economic one). The article assesses Luhmann's vision of the economy, summarized mainly in his Wirtschaft der Gesellschaft, wherein he addresses basic economic notions: the economic system, money, prices, rationality, and the market. I then interpret his ideas in the conte…
General Equilibrium Theory Behind the Iron Curtain
In this article we address the story of developments in general equilibrium theory in the Soviet Union during the 1970s through the lens of a single biography. The Soviet advances in mathematical economics give an occasion to reflect on the extension of the Walrasian paradigm to nonmarket societies, as well as on the ideological effects of general equilibrium theory and its interpretations in a Soviet context. Our contribution is focused on the d…
History and (general) equilibrium
Risk in General Equilibrium
This paper reconstructs the ontology of finance as it is presented in Kenneth Arrow’s general equilibrium model of contingent commodities. The fundamental notion of modern finance, ‘Arrow securities’ (paying one monetary unit contingent upon a certain future event and nothing otherwise) is considered an elementary Luhmannian code of the economic. The performative, self-implementing tendencies in general equilibrium analysis are reinterpreted in v…
On (im)permeabilities
While the history of Cold War social and human sciences has become an immensely productive line of inquiry and has generated some exciting research, a lot remains still to be done in studying more deeply the known stories, venturing into the unknown ones and, in particular, looking in greater detail at the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain. In our expository introduction to this special issue, we demonstrate how its articles enhance our understandi…
Conflicting Patterns of Thought in the Russian Debate on Modernisation and Innovation 2008–2013
Contains fulltext : 181950.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
The cultures of mathematical economics in the postwar Soviet Union
Economic Knowledge in Socialism, 1945-89
n Contains fulltext :\n 215421.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Programming the USSR
In the wake of Stalin's death, many Soviet scientists saw the opportunity to promote their methods as tools for the engineering of economic prosperity in the socialist state. The mathematician Leonid Kantorovich (1912–1986) was a key activist in academic politics that led to the increasing acceptance of what emerged as a new scientific persona in the Soviet Union. Rather than thinking of his work in terms of success or failure, we propose to see …
Realities of Formalization
In the postwar USSR, there were a few scattered research groups engaged in research most closely resembling "Western" mainstream economics. Inspired by the new sciences of the artificial, these groups were able to make important contributions to various fields of economic theory. This article focuses on the story of one group created by the control engineer Mark Aizerman at the Institute of Control Sciences in Moscow. It discusses the origins and…
Interpreting Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
“Rise and Fall” of the Walrasian Program in Economics
This paper aims at understanding social practices and institutions which ensured the transnational diffusion, recognition and renewal of the research program in General Equilibrium Theory, in spite of multiple critics and apparent theoretical dead ends. First, we are tracing the main conceptual developments of the Walrasian GET program since the 1950s and thus elaborate on its intellectual identity. Then, based on a systematic study of the educat…
“Rise and Fall” of the Walrasian Program in Economics
This paper aims at understanding social practices and institutions that ensured the transnational diffusion, recognition, and renewal of the research program in the General Equilibrium Theory (GET), in spite of multiple critics and apparent theoretical dead ends. First, we trace the main conceptual developments of the Walrasian GET program since the 1950s and thus elaborate on its intellectual identity. Then, based on a systematic study of the ed…
The Frame for the Not-Yet Existent
This article tells the story of the first international topological conference in Moscow (1935), an outstanding event that, for the first time, brought together the most notable American, European, and Soviet mathematicians, including those who would later play decisive roles in the mathematization of economics: John von Neumann, Leonid Kantorovich, and Albert W. Tucker. The fact that Kantorovich was in contact with von Neumann and his closest co…
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