Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
@avgevork.bsky.social
Economist. Author of #TransitionEconomies. Work on open economy macro / development; econ hist; post-socialist; #diaspora economics || hiking || w: agevorkyan.com
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Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan, Ph.D. | Economics, fiscal policy, open economy macroeconomics, economic history, economic development
agevorkyan.com
Many thanks to all the new followers! As we are all building up content on this site, I thought I’d mix my posts with few things from the archives.
Most of my work, including publications and media talks, can be found on my web here agevorkyan.com
Most of my work, including publications and media talks, can be found on my web here agevorkyan.com
New Substack post up... (and a review of How Global Currencies Work)
"Amidst recent speculations on the US dollar's status as world's reserve, it is the history of currency rises and falls that offers a reasonable conceptual framework to ponder on the future."
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
"Amidst recent speculations on the US dollar's status as world's reserve, it is the history of currency rises and falls that offers a reasonable conceptual framework to ponder on the future."
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
The "science" behind international reserve currencies... is history
Amidst recent speculations on the US dollar's status as world's reserve, it is the history of currency rises and falls that offers a reasonable conceptual framework to ponder on the future.
open.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
New Substack post up... (and a review of How Global Currencies Work)
"Amidst recent speculations on the US dollar's status as world's reserve, it is the history of currency rises and falls that offers a reasonable conceptual framework to ponder on the future."
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
"Amidst recent speculations on the US dollar's status as world's reserve, it is the history of currency rises and falls that offers a reasonable conceptual framework to ponder on the future."
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
Reposted by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
I was reading @johncassidysays.bsky.social
"Capitalism and its critics". Highly recommend. Very well written, easy to read, well-informed. Goes from Adam Smith to Piketty.
"Capitalism and its critics". Highly recommend. Very well written, easy to read, well-informed. Goes from Adam Smith to Piketty.
November 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I was reading @johncassidysays.bsky.social
"Capitalism and its critics". Highly recommend. Very well written, easy to read, well-informed. Goes from Adam Smith to Piketty.
"Capitalism and its critics". Highly recommend. Very well written, easy to read, well-informed. Goes from Adam Smith to Piketty.
When you know it’s not so:
“One would be forgiven for concluding that anything that could be said about that difficult [Soviet] period has already been said and multiple times over.”
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
“One would be forgiven for concluding that anything that could be said about that difficult [Soviet] period has already been said and multiple times over.”
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
Soviet history's unknown: Anastas Mikoyan
New archival evidence aside, this book completely changes the established view about Anastas Mikoyan and his role in the social and economic development of the former Soviet nations.
proseontherocks.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
When you know it’s not so:
“One would be forgiven for concluding that anything that could be said about that difficult [Soviet] period has already been said and multiple times over.”
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
“One would be forgiven for concluding that anything that could be said about that difficult [Soviet] period has already been said and multiple times over.”
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
Reposted by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
There are few surprises in this book.
One is the explanation of Mikoyan’s leading role in 1950s in bringing back entire peoples of the North Caucasus back to their ancestral lands from their exile in Central Asia. But who remembers today…? ⤵️
One is the explanation of Mikoyan’s leading role in 1950s in bringing back entire peoples of the North Caucasus back to their ancestral lands from their exile in Central Asia. But who remembers today…? ⤵️
New Substack! Soviet history's unknown: Anastas Mikoyan.
Review of Pietro Shakarian's "Anastas Mikoyan: an Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin"
FYI @iupress.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
Review of Pietro Shakarian's "Anastas Mikoyan: an Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin"
FYI @iupress.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
November 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
There are few surprises in this book.
One is the explanation of Mikoyan’s leading role in 1950s in bringing back entire peoples of the North Caucasus back to their ancestral lands from their exile in Central Asia. But who remembers today…? ⤵️
One is the explanation of Mikoyan’s leading role in 1950s in bringing back entire peoples of the North Caucasus back to their ancestral lands from their exile in Central Asia. But who remembers today…? ⤵️
There are few surprises in this book.
One is the explanation of Mikoyan’s leading role in 1950s in bringing back entire peoples of the North Caucasus back to their ancestral lands from their exile in Central Asia. But who remembers today…? ⤵️
One is the explanation of Mikoyan’s leading role in 1950s in bringing back entire peoples of the North Caucasus back to their ancestral lands from their exile in Central Asia. But who remembers today…? ⤵️
New Substack! Soviet history's unknown: Anastas Mikoyan.
Review of Pietro Shakarian's "Anastas Mikoyan: an Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin"
FYI @iupress.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
Review of Pietro Shakarian's "Anastas Mikoyan: an Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin"
FYI @iupress.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
November 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
There are few surprises in this book.
One is the explanation of Mikoyan’s leading role in 1950s in bringing back entire peoples of the North Caucasus back to their ancestral lands from their exile in Central Asia. But who remembers today…? ⤵️
One is the explanation of Mikoyan’s leading role in 1950s in bringing back entire peoples of the North Caucasus back to their ancestral lands from their exile in Central Asia. But who remembers today…? ⤵️
Reposted by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
New Substack! Soviet history's unknown: Anastas Mikoyan.
Review of Pietro Shakarian's "Anastas Mikoyan: an Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin"
FYI @iupress.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
Review of Pietro Shakarian's "Anastas Mikoyan: an Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin"
FYI @iupress.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
October 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
New Substack! Soviet history's unknown: Anastas Mikoyan.
Review of Pietro Shakarian's "Anastas Mikoyan: an Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin"
FYI @iupress.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
Review of Pietro Shakarian's "Anastas Mikoyan: an Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin"
FYI @iupress.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
New Substack! Soviet history's unknown: Anastas Mikoyan.
Review of Pietro Shakarian's "Anastas Mikoyan: an Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin"
FYI @iupress.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
Review of Pietro Shakarian's "Anastas Mikoyan: an Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin"
FYI @iupress.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
October 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
New Substack! Soviet history's unknown: Anastas Mikoyan.
Review of Pietro Shakarian's "Anastas Mikoyan: an Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin"
FYI @iupress.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
Review of Pietro Shakarian's "Anastas Mikoyan: an Armenian Reformer in Khrushchev's Kremlin"
FYI @iupress.bsky.social @aseees.bsky.social
READ: proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-his...
Reposted by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
October 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Reposted by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
The "transition" period had a major destructive impact on the societies / economies of the small post-socialist economies.
Here via the decline in average height during the tumultuous 1990s...
data: @OurWorldInData
Read the book: goo.gl/HGy6pt
Read the substack: proseontherocks.substack.com
Here via the decline in average height during the tumultuous 1990s...
data: @OurWorldInData
Read the book: goo.gl/HGy6pt
Read the substack: proseontherocks.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The "transition" period had a major destructive impact on the societies / economies of the small post-socialist economies.
Here via the decline in average height during the tumultuous 1990s...
data: @OurWorldInData
Read the book: goo.gl/HGy6pt
Read the substack: proseontherocks.substack.com
Here via the decline in average height during the tumultuous 1990s...
data: @OurWorldInData
Read the book: goo.gl/HGy6pt
Read the substack: proseontherocks.substack.com
The "transition" period had a major destructive impact on the societies / economies of the small post-socialist economies.
Here via the decline in average height during the tumultuous 1990s...
data: @OurWorldInData
Read the book: goo.gl/HGy6pt
Read the substack: proseontherocks.substack.com
Here via the decline in average height during the tumultuous 1990s...
data: @OurWorldInData
Read the book: goo.gl/HGy6pt
Read the substack: proseontherocks.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The "transition" period had a major destructive impact on the societies / economies of the small post-socialist economies.
Here via the decline in average height during the tumultuous 1990s...
data: @OurWorldInData
Read the book: goo.gl/HGy6pt
Read the substack: proseontherocks.substack.com
Here via the decline in average height during the tumultuous 1990s...
data: @OurWorldInData
Read the book: goo.gl/HGy6pt
Read the substack: proseontherocks.substack.com
The glorious mount Ararat at dawn and sunset… the history the identity the eternal hope
October 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The glorious mount Ararat at dawn and sunset… the history the identity the eternal hope
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In this latest podcast we touch on complex problems of the state of the field of economics and what it actually means to be an economist…
No way that was easy. But hopefully there’s something reasonable for everyone
www.hgsss.org/the-henry-ge...
No way that was easy. But hopefully there’s something reasonable for everyone
www.hgsss.org/the-henry-ge...
THE HENRY GEORGE SCHOOL PODCAST - hgsss.org
www.hgsss.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
In this latest podcast we touch on complex problems of the state of the field of economics and what it actually means to be an economist…
No way that was easy. But hopefully there’s something reasonable for everyone
www.hgsss.org/the-henry-ge...
No way that was easy. But hopefully there’s something reasonable for everyone
www.hgsss.org/the-henry-ge...
Reposted by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
"one thing is clear -- #commodities prices will continue in their volatility..." but what of #development?
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
Commodities, macroeconomic development, and small open economies
Facing primary commodity dependence & related price volatility, the challenge for small open economies is to come up with an inclusive and solid macroeconomic development model.
open.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"one thing is clear -- #commodities prices will continue in their volatility..." but what of #development?
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
October 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Reposted by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
Next Monday (Oct 6) the two-days conference "Inequality & History" will begin, hosted by @dondenacentre.bsky.social at Bocconi University (Milan). Join us to explore & debate inequality across history, from Classical Antiquity until today! Remote attendance possible; QR code in the program below👇
October 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Next Monday (Oct 6) the two-days conference "Inequality & History" will begin, hosted by @dondenacentre.bsky.social at Bocconi University (Milan). Join us to explore & debate inequality across history, from Classical Antiquity until today! Remote attendance possible; QR code in the program below👇
Reposted by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
"[Econ History and History of Econ orient] an economist on a vast landscape of [...] problems not as some always random phenomena but as something that systemically evolves through the complexity of social interactions and policy decisions over time."
"So, professor, how do we correct economics?" - I was asked a month or so ago...
The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists.
proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...
The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists.
proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...
October 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
"[Econ History and History of Econ orient] an economist on a vast landscape of [...] problems not as some always random phenomena but as something that systemically evolves through the complexity of social interactions and policy decisions over time."
Reposted by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
"So, professor, how do we correct economics?" - I was asked a month or so ago...
The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists.
proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...
The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists.
proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...
September 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"So, professor, how do we correct economics?" - I was asked a month or so ago...
The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists.
proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...
The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists.
proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...
"So, professor, how do we correct economics?" - I was asked a month or so ago...
The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists.
proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...
The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists.
proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...
September 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"So, professor, how do we correct economics?" - I was asked a month or so ago...
The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists.
proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...
The result is a podcast & a quick Substack on economics education and economists.
proseontherocks.substack.com/p/what-does-...
"one thing is clear -- #commodities prices will continue in their volatility..." but what of #development?
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
Commodities, macroeconomic development, and small open economies
Facing primary commodity dependence & related price volatility, the challenge for small open economies is to come up with an inclusive and solid macroeconomic development model.
open.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"one thing is clear -- #commodities prices will continue in their volatility..." but what of #development?
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
In this latest podcast we touch on complex problems of the state of the field of economics and what it actually means to be an economist…
No way that was easy. But hopefully there’s something reasonable for everyone
www.hgsss.org/the-henry-ge...
No way that was easy. But hopefully there’s something reasonable for everyone
www.hgsss.org/the-henry-ge...
THE HENRY GEORGE SCHOOL PODCAST - hgsss.org
www.hgsss.org
September 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
In this latest podcast we touch on complex problems of the state of the field of economics and what it actually means to be an economist…
No way that was easy. But hopefully there’s something reasonable for everyone
www.hgsss.org/the-henry-ge...
No way that was easy. But hopefully there’s something reasonable for everyone
www.hgsss.org/the-henry-ge...
So, what is your strategy to reviewing such a paper for a leading journal in your field?
September 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
So, what is your strategy to reviewing such a paper for a leading journal in your field?
The big conversation - taking place now at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social - discussing demographics, development, inequality, perceptions in / of #China with @brankomilan.bsky.social @janetgornick.bsky.social & others on the panel.
September 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The big conversation - taking place now at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social - discussing demographics, development, inequality, perceptions in / of #China with @brankomilan.bsky.social @janetgornick.bsky.social & others on the panel.
Reposted by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
Is there a link between the type of exports (primary commodities) / the currency they are traded in and macroeconomic development?
Read:
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
Read:
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
Commodities, macroeconomic development, and small open economies
Facing primary commodity dependence & related price volatility, the challenge for small open economies is to come up with an inclusive and solid macroeconomic development model.
open.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Is there a link between the type of exports (primary commodities) / the currency they are traded in and macroeconomic development?
Read:
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
Read:
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
Reposted by Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
Inequalities in new capitalism.
In the class-based society of the “old” capitalism, there was a clear contradiction between capital and labour. But today, the richest capitalists & the richest workers are increasingly the same people. What should we make of this, asks @brankomilan.bsky.social? #LSEInequalitiesBlog
New Capitalism in America
The richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people: replacing a class-based society, we now have an elite-ruled society
buff.ly
September 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Inequalities in new capitalism.
Is there a link between the type of exports (primary commodities) / the currency they are traded in and macroeconomic development?
Read:
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
Read:
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
Commodities, macroeconomic development, and small open economies
Facing primary commodity dependence & related price volatility, the challenge for small open economies is to come up with an inclusive and solid macroeconomic development model.
open.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Is there a link between the type of exports (primary commodities) / the currency they are traded in and macroeconomic development?
Read:
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...
Read:
open.substack.com/pub/proseont...