Economic sociology of wealth and money: The pioneering Russian contribution of Ivan Pososhkov’s (1652-1726)
Résumé
Ivan Pososhkov (1652-1726) is credited with the first Russian systematic economic treatise, A Book on Poverty and Wealth [Kniga o skudosti i bogatsve] in 1724. He is at the foundations of economic thought in Russia with historical idiosyncrasies which have endured to our day. The paper offers reflections on Poshoshkov’s originality, mainly exposing his views: on the meaning of wealth and growth; on the economic policy and sociology of wealth, on monetary ideas and monetary reforms proposals.