About me
Anna Klimina is Associate Professor in the Economics Department at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Her primary research interests include economics of post-Soviet transition, seen through institutionalist and Post Keynesian perspectives, and history of Russian economic thought.
Publications
BOOK CHAPTERS
Klimina Anna (2022) “Constructing an Economically Democratic Society in the Former Soviet Union: Post-Keynesian Institutionalist Insights in Historical Perspective” in A Modern Guide to Post-Keynesian Institutional Economics, edited by Charles Whalen, pp. 194 – 215 : Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
Klimina Anna (2020) “When the cultural argument goes too far: the need to limit particularism and welcome convergence on socially progressive goals”, in How Social Forces Impact the Economy, edited by Steven Pressman, pp. 118 - 134, New York: Routledge
Klimina Anna (2019) “Contextualizing women’s economic thought in late Imperial Russia and in the early years of Revolution: 1870-1920” In The Routledge Handbook of the History of Women’s Economic Thought, edited by Kirsten Madden and Robert Dimand, pp. 113 - 128, New York: Routledge
Klimina Anna (2019) “Placing Women’s Economics within Soviet Economic Discourse: 1920s – 1991” In The Routledge Handbook of the History of Women’s Economic Thought, edited by Kirsten Madden and Robert Dimand, pp. 325 - 340, New York: Routledge
Klimina Anna (2017) “Rethinking the Role of the State “In The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics: Theorizing, Analyzing, and Transforming Capitalism, edited by Tae-Hee Jo, Lynne Chester, and Carlo D'Ippoliti, New York: Routledge, pp. 458-470
PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Klimina Anna (2022) Transforming Oligarchic Capitalism in Post-Soviet Space into Social-Democratic Capitalism: Words of Wisdom from Post-Keynesian Institutionalist Forerunners and Early Contributors. Journal of Economic Issues, LVI: 2: pp. pp. 618-625
Klimina Anna (2020) “Defining and Defending a Progressive Market Square: Bringing Institutionalist Development Discourse in Line with the Reality of Post-Soviet Transition Experiences”, Journal of Economic Issues, LIV: 2: pp. 380 - 387
Klimina Anna (2019) “Opening up Possibilities: Limiting Particularism and Welcoming Convergence on Socially Progressive Goals”, Journal of Economic Issues, 53 (2) : 448 -455
Klimina Anna (2018) An Unfortunate Alignment of Heterodoxy, Nationalism, and Authoritarianism in Putin’s Russia, Journal of Economic Issues, 52:2, 517-526
Klimina Anna (2017) The Lost Promise of Democratic Socialism in Russia, Journal of Economic Issues, 51:2, 458-466
Klimina Anna (2016) The Role of Culture, Historicity, and Human Agency in the Evolution of the State: A Case Against Cultural Fatalism, Journal of Economic Issues, 50:2, 557-565
Klimina Anna (2015) “The Role of Economic Class in Understanding Social Provisioning Processes in the Post-Soviet Transition: The Case of Ukraine” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XLIX, No.2, pp. 541-550
Klimina Anna (2014) “Finding a positive vision for state capitalism”. Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XLVIII, No.2, pp. 421-429
Klimina Anna (2013) “Placing the analysis of contemporary state capitalism within evolutionary discourse” Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XLVII, No.2, pp. 545-553
Klimina, Anna (2012) “The Significance of the Evolutionary-Institutionalist (Social Power) Approach to the Construction of the Market: The Case of Historically Backward Transition Journal of
Economic Issues, Vol. XLVI, No.2, pp. 383-392
Klimina, Anna (2011) “The Futility of the Neoliberal Policy of Deliberate Market Construction and the Promise of an Institutionalist Alternative: The Case of Russia’s Authoritarian Transition” Journal of Economic Issues Vol. XLV, No.2, pp.411-420
Klimina, Anna (2011) “Ideas of Constructed Market in Late Imperial Russia: Constructivist Liberalism of Peter Struve (1870 – 1944)”, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 31 no.3 pp. 2041-2052
Klimina, Anna (2010) “On the Risks of Introducing Liberal Plan in a Traditionally Autocratic Society: the Case of Russia” Journal of Economic Issues Vol. XLIV, No.2, pp.513-521
Klimina, Anna (2009) “Toward an Evolutionary-Institutionalist Concept of State Capture: The Relevance of Kaleckian Analysis of Non-Equilibrium Dynamics” Journal of Economic Issues Vol. XLIII, No.2, pp. 371-380
Klimina, Anna (2008) “On Misuse of the term “Institutionalist” in the analysis of Russian academic economics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the case of Michail Tugan-Baranovsky (1865- 1919)” Economic Bulletin, Vol.2, No. 2, pp. 1-9
Klimina, Anna (2008) “Veblenian Concept of Habit and Its Relevance to the Analysis of Captured Transition” Journal of Economic Issues Vol. XLII, No.2, pp. 545-552
Klimina, Anna (1996) “Western Influence on the Formation of Ukraine's Economic System” The Ukrainian Quarterly, Vol. Lll, No.1, pp. 47-58.
BOOK REVIEWS
Klimina, Anna (2014) Review of “The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy”, edited by Michael Alexeev and Shlomo Weber, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, xiv + 849 p. Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XLVIII, No.4 (December), pp. 1153-1155
Klimina, Anna (2010) Review of “Vincent Barnett and Joachim Zweynert, editors, Economics in Russia: Studies in Intellectual History”. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008, 198p. Journal of the History of Economic Thought Volume 32, No. 1, pp.139-142
Selection of Publications (by Year)
- Klimina, A. "“Placing the analysis of contemporary state capitalism within evolutionary discourse”". Journal of Economic Issues Vol. XLVII, 2 (2013): 545-553.
Research
19th Century 20th Century economics of development economics of transition history of economic thought Institutional and social economics
Institutionalist Economics
Economics of Transition
History of Economic Thought