Abstract

Professor Alexander Buzgalin will be giving a talk on the following topic: “Russia, Ukraine and the West: The geopolitical economy of contradictions”.

Alexandr V. Buzgalin is Professor of economics at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Political Economy; Chief-editor of the Journal ‘Alternatives’; consultant for the 1st Education, State Duma (Parliament) of RF; member of editorial boards of the ‘World Journal of Political Economy’ and ‘International Critical Thought’. His most recent book is: Global Capital (2 volumes). Moscow 2014 (with A.Kolganov, in Russian). Other works include: Theory of Socio-Economic Transformations. M., 2003 (with A.Kolganov, in Russian). 576 p. and Comparative Economics. Moscow 2005 (with A.Kolganov, in Russian). 746 p.