voprecotestВопросы экономикиVoprosy Ekonomiki0042-8736Voprosy Ekonomiki, NP10.32609/0042-8736-2025-12-5-31voprecotest-5672Research ArticleВОПРОСЫ ТЕОРИИISSUES OF THEORYКуда ведет ностальгический эмпиризм новых-новых институционалистов?Where is the nostalgic empiricism of the new new institutionalists leading economics?https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9153-5120МальцевА. А.MaltsevA. A.

Мальцев Александр Андреевич – д. э. н., доцент, завкафедрой политической экономии экономического факультета МГУ

Москва

Alexander A. Maltsev

Moscow

almalzev@mail.ruhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6713-069XШаститкоА. Е.ShastitkoA. E.

 Шаститко Андрей Евгеньевич – д. э. н., проф., завкафедрой конкурентной и промышленной политики экономического факультета МГУ, директор Центра исследований конкуренции и экономического регулирования РАНХиГС

Москва

Andrey E. Shastitko

Moscow

saedd@mail.ruМосковский государственный университет имени М. В. ЛомоносоваРоссияLomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussian FederationМосковский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова ; Российская академия народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте Российской ФедерацииРоссияLomonosov Moscow State University; Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public AdministrationRussian Federation202510122025012531Copyright © Voprosy Ekonomiki, NP, 20252025Voprosy Ekonomiki, NPVoprosy Ekonomiki, NPhttps://www.vopreco.ru/jour/about/submissions#copyrightNoticehttps://www.vopreco.ru/jour/article/view/5672

Проанализированы основные клише и стереотипы, сложившиеся вокруг современной экономической науки. На примере творчества Д. Асемоглу, С. Джонсона и Дж. Робинсона доказано несоответствие современного мейнстрима многочисленным карикатурам, которые создают его критики. Обоснован тезис о том, что популярность этих экономистов обусловлена не столько концептуальной оригинальностью развиваемых ими подходов, сколько отличным владением риторическими приемами, позволяющими этим ученым успешно коммуницировать с разными аудиториями и создавать убедительные для них нарративы. Выделены дискуссионные особенности исследовательского стиля: компенсация дефицита теоретической новизны эмпирической проверкой уже известных исторических кейсов; излишне вольная трактовка трудов предшественников; замалчивание неудобных для их интерпретации результатов исследований других специалистов. Показано, что умело продвигаемый нарратив об эмпирической строгости развиваемых ими идей, с одной стороны, созвучен вызовам времени, а с другой — лишает предметную область экономической науки своеобразия, делая ее малоотличимой от других дисциплин.

The article provides a critical analysis of the main cliches and stereotypes surrounding modern economics. Using the work of the 2024 Nobel laureates D. Acemoglu, S. Johnson, and J. Robinson (AJR) as a case study, it is demonstrated that the modern mainstream economics does not conform to the numerous caricatures still drawn of it by critics. It is argued that the popularity of these economists is due not so much to the originality of their approaches, but rather to their excellent command of rhetorical techniques, which allows them to successfully communicate with different audiences and create compelling narratives for them. The authors highlight three contentious features of AJR’s research style:(1)    compensating for a lack of theoretical novelty through empirical testing of already known historical “cases”; (2) offering an excessively liberal interpretation of the works of their predecessors; (3) suppressing research results from other scholars that are inconvenient for their interpretations. It is shown that the narrative of empirical rigor in their ideas, skillfully promoted by AJR, is, on the one hand, in tune with the challenges of the time, and on the other hand, deprives the subject area of economics of its distinctiveness, making it hardly distinguishable from other disciplines.

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