page_title: List of Russian people
section_title: Economists and sociologists
hierarchical_section_title: List of Russian people / Scientists and scholars / Economists and sociologists
caption_attribution_description: English: Nobel laureates Leonid Kantorovich Русский: Нобелевский лауреат Леонид Канторович. Серия "Прогулки с академиком". За две недели до вручения Нобелевской премии.
context_page_description: This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Kievan Rus', and other predecessor states of Russia.
  Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes famous natives of Russia and its predecessor states, as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Russia.
context_section_description: Alexander Chayanov, developed the consumption-labour-balance principle
  Georges Gurvitch, major developer of sociology of knowledge and sociology of law
  Leonid Kantorovich, mathematician and economist, founded linear programming, developed the theory of optimal allocation of resources, Nobel Prize in Economics winner
  Nikolai Kondratiev, discoverer of the Kondratiev waves
  Andrey Korotayev, historian, anthropologist, a founder of cliodynamics, prominent developer of social cycle theory
  Gleb Krzhizhanovsky, developer of the GOELRO plan, the first Chief of Gosplan
  Simon Kuznets, discovered the Kuznets swings, built the Kuznets curve, disproved the Absolute Income Hypothesis, Nobel Prize in Economics winner
  Vladimir Lenin, leader of the October Revolution and founder of the Soviet Union, introduced planned economy and Leninism
  Evsei Liberman, laid the scientific support for the Soviet Kosygin reform in economy
  Wassily Leontief, developed input-output analysis and the Leontief paradox, Nobel Prize in Economics winner
  Vasily Nemchinov, created the mathematical basis for the Soviet central planning
  Grigory Orlov, founder of the Free Economic Society
  Pitirim Sorokin, sociologist, a prominent developer of the social cycle theory
  Stanislav Strumilin, pioneer of the planned economy, developed the first five-year plans
caption: Leonid Kantorovich
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