National Identity and Economics: Georg Cancrin in the “Russian School” of Economic Thought
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This article will uncover the hidden roots of the “Russian School” of economics, a potent trend in postSoviet Russian politics, by scrutinizing how historians and economists have portrayed a key figure for that body of thought, Egor Cancrin, who was the Minister of Finance (1823–1845) under Nicholas I. Th is article is not his biography, but rather it analyzes how various contending interpretations of Count Cancrin’s stewardship of the Ministry of Finance combined to become a part of the modern Russian national identity and a pattern for the way Russians think about economics. By tracing this particular discursive trajectory, I will produce a snapshot of Russia’s social epistemology. Refs 146.
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National identity, Russian empire, Intellectual History, History of Economic Thought, Cameralism, public conscience
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