THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT IN THE TIMIRYAZEV ACADEMY (1865–1930): TO THE 150-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL ECONOMICS
The article examines the formation of economic science and economic education in Peterovskaya - Timiryazev Agricultural Academy since its establishment and until the end of the 1920s. Biographical information about professors of the Department of Political Economy (M.P. Schepkin, I.I. Ivanyukov, N.A. Karishev, M.Y. Herzenstein, V.Y. Zheleznov) is provided, and their scientific views as well as contribution to economic theory is analyzed. The Petrovsko-Razumovsky school of political economy is considered as the Russian branch of the". Historical school of economics" ("Katheder Socialism"). The article demonstrates the continuity of"agricultural economy" discipline in the Academy and examines the evolution of Agricultural Economics there: From the theory of a large privately owned farm (A.P. Lyudogovsky, A.N. Shishkin, K.A. Verner) to the statistical study of a peasant farm (A.F. Fortunatov) and developing the theory of peasant economy (A.V. Chayanov). The contribution of A.V. Chayanov and N.D. Kondratiev to the development of the agro-economic education at the Timiryazev Academy in the 1920s. is discussed.