Author: smolny

What do economists know about the unfolding and effects of military conflicts? How do wars affect economic growth, macroeconomic and sectoral imbalances, and the financial system? What are the channels of an inter-country military conflict’s impact on the global economy? Are there limits to the use of economic sanctions as a response of the international community to military aggression in the 21st century? What is the optimal economic policy for post-war reconstruction, and what could a possible “Marshall Plan” for Ukraine be?

Andrei Rodin and his partner Marina Kravtsova gave a short interview to France24 TV channel.

There has come another round of persecution of teachers at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences. For participating in an anti-war rally, our colleague Denis Skopin was fired with the wording “for an immoral act.” We express our solidarity with Denis, whose anti-war position, on the contrary, is the only moral and civic responsibility. It is characteristic that St Petersburg University, led by a “lawyer”, so clearly demonstrates the final loss of university autonomy and completely submits to the dictatorship, inventing such legal novels.