George Kleiner1946—2026

Selected works

Twenty-two monographs and nearly nine hundred and fifty works are too many to start with. These fourteen books trace how his subject changed: from production functions to the theory of economic systems and mesoeconomics.

Draft selection — under review.

1986

Production Functions: Theory, Methods and Applications

Производственные функции: теория, методы, применение

The first major book and the summation of the mathematical period. Production functions as economic-statistical models — an apparatus he returned to throughout his life.

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1999

The Russian Economy at the Turn of the Century

Экономика России на перепутье веков

The Russian economy at the turn of the century: an attempt to describe the transition as a whole rather than as a series of separate reforms.

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2004

The Evolution of Institutional Systems

Эволюция институциональных систем

Institutional systems from enterprise to country: how they form, how they change, and why they resist transplantation.

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2007

The Microeconomics of Knowledge

Микроэкономика знаний

Knowledge as an economic resource at enterprise level — an early approach to what later became the intellectual theory of the firm.

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2008

Enterprise Strategy

Стратегия предприятия

An integrated socio-economic strategy for the enterprise. One of his most practical books, written to be used.

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2011

The Mesoeconomics of Development

Мезоэкономика развития

Mesoeconomics is no longer a description of the transition but an instrument for analysing development.

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2016

Economics. Modelling. Mathematics

Экономика. Моделирование. Математика

Selected works. The three words of the title are the three occupations he pursued simultaneously for forty years.

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2017

The Systemic Balance of the Economy

Системная сбалансированность экономики

Assessing the balance of an economy through four sectors — object, project, environment and process. The core of systems economic theory.

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2026

System Economics on the March: Frontiers and Bearings

Системная экономика на марше: рубежи и ориентиры

The summing-up: 484 pages drawn from the work of his last five years — the methodology of economic science, systemic management of organisations, and Russia's development strategy. Preface by A.R. Bakhtizin. The book carries a 2026 imprint.

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