Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
George Kleiner
8 May 1946 — 4 June 2026
Economist and mathematician, author of systems economic theory, the account of an economy as the interaction of object, project, environment and process systems. A long road from commutative algebra to mesoeconomics.
What continues
“The creative legacy of Georgy Kleiner” — a talk by R. A. Zhukov
16 June 2026 · Interdepartmental research seminar, Tula branch of the Financial University
The first seminar in his memory, twelve days after his death: systems economic theory, mesoeconomics, and his last work towards a unified economic theory.
In his own voice
I want to get to the very essence of it. Right down to the roots, to the very core. I want to grasp the truth.
George Kleiner · Radio Sputnik, broadcast 2 August 2022
Principal directions
Strategy and strategic planning
Strategy at the level of the enterprise and the country: integrated socio-economic planning, benchmark planning, technological sovereignty and sustainable development.
297 works2000-е — 2020-еSystems economics
The central direction of his mature years: the economy understood as the emergence, functioning, transformation and interaction of economic systems — object, project, environment and process types.
254 works1990-е — 2020-еEnterprise economics and management
Theory of the firm, enterprise behaviour in a transition economy, the tetrad model of the enterprise, social leadership and multipolar organisational management.
242 works1970-е — 2020-еEconomic-mathematical modelling
The longest continuous line in his work: production functions, econometric, agent-based, cognitive and equilibrium models, and evidence-based modelling.
196 works1990-е — 2010-еInstitutional theory
The formation and transformation of institutional systems from enterprise to country; the institutions of the transition economy, barter and non-payment in the 1990s.
86 works2010-е — 2020-еMesoeconomics
The meso level of the economy as an object of analysis in its own right, together with micro-, nano- and spatial economics.
20 worksMost recent works
- 2026Competition and Collaboration in the World of Computer-Mathematical Economic ModelsКонкуренция и коллаборация в мире компьютерно-математических моделей экономики
Kleiner G.B.
Journal of Modern Competition. 2025. vol. 19. no. 6. pp. 5–23. DOI: 10.37791/2687-0657-2025-19-6-5-23. (In Russ.) DOI
Agent-based models · Cognitive models · Collaboration
- 2026Mathematics and Economics in Möbius Space: A Systems View of Interdisciplinary Technologies of CognitionМатематика и экономика в пространстве Мебиуса: системный взгляд на междисциплинарные технологии познания tr.
Kleiner G.B.
Economics of Science. 2026. vol. 12. no. 1. pp. 23–33. EDN: GXQBLI. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19345792. (In Russ.) DOI
The interaction of mathematics and economics · Mathematics · Modelling
- 2026Towards a unified economic theoryНа пути к единой экономической теории
Kleiner G.B.
Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2026. no. 7. pp. 28–48. DOI: 10.32609/0042-8736-2026-7-28-48. (In Russ.) DOI
Unified economic theory · Economic theory · Systems economics
- 2026A science and technology platform for the systems-strategic management of a republic's sustainable developmentНаучно-технологическая платформа для системно-стратегического управления устойчивым развитием республики tr.
Kleiner G.B., Altudov Yu.K., Mashukova E.M., Shidov A.Kh.
Strategicheskoe planirovanie i razvitie predpriyatiy: proceedings of KhKhVII All-Russian Symposium (Moscow, 14–15 April 2026) / ed. by Corresponding Member of RAS G.B. Kleiner. Moscow: CEMI RAS, 2026. 820 p. pp. 359–363. (In Russ.)
Strategic planning
- 2026Systems Modelling of the Economy: Towards a Synthesis of Agent-Based, Equilibrium, Econometric and Cognitive ModelsСистемное моделирование экономики: к проблеме синтеза агентных, равновесных, эконометрических и когнитивных моделей (часть 1) tr.
Kleiner G.B.
Ekonomika i Matematicheskie Metody. 2026. vol. 62. no. 1. pp. 5–18. DOI: 10.7868/S3034617726010013. (In Russ.) DOI
Agent-based models · Cognitive models · Equilibrium models
- 2026Systems Modelling of the Economy: Towards a Synthesis of Agent-Based, Equilibrium, Econometric and Cognitive Models (part 2)Системное моделирование экономики: к проблеме синтеза агентных, равновесных, эконометрических и когнитивных моделей (часть 2) tr.
Kleiner G.B.
Ekonomika i Matematicheskie Metody. 2026. vol. 62. no. 2. pp. 18–32. DOI: 10.7868/S3034617726020024. (In Russ.) DOI
Models of systems · Systems economics
- 2025Strategic Priorities of Systems Management of Russian Companies as a Means of Overcoming Technological Imbalances of Digitalization
Kleiner G.B., Ganichev N.A., Rybachuk M.A.
Studies on Russian Economic Development. 36, 812–822 (2025). DOI: 10.1134/S1075700725700546 DOI
Systems economics
- 2025Introduction to the monograph “Intellectual Technologies in Micro- and Mesoeconomics”Введение к монографии «Интеллектуальные технологии в микро- и мезоэкономике» tr.
Kleiner G.B.
Intellektualnye tekhnologii v mikro- i mezoekonomike: monograph / ed. by Corresponding Member of RAS G.B. Kleiner; foreword by Corresponding Member of RAS A. R. Bakhtizina; Federalnoe gosudarstvennoe byudzhetnoe uchrezhdenie nauki Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow: Nauchnaya Biblioteka Publishing House, 2025. 324 p. pp. 8–12. (In Russ.)
Systems economics
Chronology
- 1946
8 May 1946, Ivanovo
- 1969
Graduated with honours from the Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
- 1969—1991
Institute of Electronic Control Machines: from junior researcher to head of the laboratory of mathematical problems of industrial economics
- 1989
Doctor of Economic Sciences
- 1997
- 2003
Elected Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2026
Scientific report “Is a unified economic theory possible?” — the international seminar Theoretical Economics of the Institute of Economics of the RAS and the New Economic Association, 9 April
- 2026
Scientific report “Outlines and predictors of a unified economic theory” to the Academic Council of CEMI RAS, 18 May — his last public appearance
- 2026
- 2026
4 June 2026