Dostoevsky’s Economic Cycles

... as a Russian economist, a real discovery and revelation was the economic article written by Fyodor Mikhailovich in “ A Writer’s Diary ”, which was in fact one of Dostoevsky’s last articles on the ways Russia was developing. In this article, Dostoevsky largely anticipates such key topics for the Russian economy as the “turn to the East”, the prioritisation of long-term development guidelines (as an argument in favour of the creation of the Stabilisation Fund in our time), the fight against bureaucracy, the importance of public confidence in the economic ...