Abel Gezevich Aganbegyan ( hy, Աբել Գյոզի Աղանբեկյան; russian: Абе́л Ге́зевич Аганбегя́н; born 8 October 1932) is a leading

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descent, a full member of the

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and an honorary doctor of business administration of

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, the founder and first editor of the journal ''EKO''.

Biography

Aganbegyan was born on 8 October 1932 in

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), a son of a senior

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official. Upon graduating from the Moscow State Economical Institute in 1956 he was employed by the Soviet government structure responsible for salary policy in the USSR. In 1961 he left the official work and started his scientific career. He became an employee of a new scientific institute in Novosibirsk which was quickly filled by young and ambitious persons from

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. An active member of the group of mathematical economists which emerged in the USSR in the 1960s, Aganbegyan became an Academy member in 1963 (full member in 1974) and the head of the institute in 1964. He was just 32 years old and had only one published book. In the late 1980s he was one of Mikhail Gorbachev's chief economic advisers and among the first Soviet economists to voice the need for a restructuring of the economic and business infrastructure of the Soviet Union. His ideas were presented in a number of ideological books on perestroika. He also supported the movement for the reunion of

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with

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. In 1989–2002 he was the rector of the Academy of National Economy under the

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. He is a foreign member of the Bulgarian and the Hungarian Academies of Sciences, a correspondenting member of the

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. He is the father of Ruben Aganbegyan as well as Ekaterina Kouprianova.

Books

Aganbegyan is the author of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications and 20 monographs. *Abel Aganbegyan, "Moving The Mountain Inside the Perestroika Revolution", Bantam Press 0593018184, 1989. *Economics in a Changing World: System Transformation, Eastern and Western Assessments Volume 1-3, by Aganbegyan, Abel; Bogomolov, Oleg & Kaser, Michael, 1989. *Economic Challenge of Perestroika, by Aganbegyan, Abel, Macmillan Press, London, 1994

Sources

Biography at Great Soviet Encyclopedia

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aganbegyan, Abel 1932 births Living people Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Fellows of the Econometric Society Foreign Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Plekhanov Russian University of Economics alumni Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Russian economists Economists from Georgia (country) Ethnic Armenian economists Georgian people of Armenian descent Russian people of Armenian descent Soviet Armenians Writers from Tbilisi