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What Will the modern Russian Statistics have in Store for history?
https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2015-1-125-146
Abstract
Problems of transformation of modern Russian statistics in future historical statistics about our time are considered. Existence of serious obstacles on the way of this transformation is noted, their reasons are analyzed. Requirements to that part of historical statistics about our time which data are used for the analysis of economic dynamics are discussed. Measures for the situation improvement are offered, estimated consequences of their implementation or failure are analyzed.
About the Author
V. Bessonov
National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Bessonov V. What Will the modern Russian Statistics have in Store for history? Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2015;(1):125-146. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2015-1-125-146
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