François Allisson is a Lecturer in History of Economic Thought at the Centre Walras Pareto, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
"""This high-quality book is devoted to the history of one theoretical concept that appeared in Russian economic science at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century...Allisson’s work is of high interest; this is a profound study based on detailed analyses of the Russian economic literature."" Irina Chaplygina and Mikhail Pokidchenko, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Journal of the History of Economics Thought"