Moscow: Vostochny Universitet Publ., 2006, 320 p. (in Russian)

Anatoly Iosifovich Dinkevich was already a self-sufficient Japanese scholar, not only engaged in economics, but also distinguished by his knowledge of the literary process, when in the early 1960s he created a completely new scientific direction for the entire Russian Oriental studies. This is the economy of developing countries. After some time, his titanic efforts turned the direction organizationally into the Department of Financial and Economic Problems of the Institute of Internal Affairs of the USSR Academy of Sciences. And a school was created. It is well known that organizational titanism is not the key to even short-term success. However, Dinkevich had (and still has!) outstanding knowledge, broad ideas, scientific talent, and finally, the ability to abstract from the political situation and even more obsequiousness, which destroyed a lot of really creative and, of course, deep-seated initiatives. The school, guided and nurtured by him, began to produce vivid works on the problems of finance, budgets, extraordinary and ordinary incomes, credit systems, investment, foreign trade, loans, deficit financing (which was generally considered unheard of sedition), money circulation, reproduction and distribution, theories and practices of economic growth. It was such a powerful phenomenon, such a scientific breakthrough, that even in this windy time, the direction is alive, although the thinned ranks can only shine a lamp. And that's a good thing.

But here's what's unexpectedly better. The knowledge about the models of the transition economy ("third world"), which was literally distracted from what was happening in our country at that time, now seems to highlight domestic ailments from the aesculapianism of Russian economic projectors during the period of perestroika, post-perestroika, and many years of market enthusiasm.

Dinkevich, relying on his phenomenal economic and Oriental experience and knowledge of the stages already passed by developing countries, with all their stumbles in the atmosphere of the quasi-market, failures from blind imitation of an obviously unattainable model, and so on, is not difficult to reveal the truly scientific reasons for the failure of those euphoric domestic reforms. All this can be seen through the author's analysis of finance, credit, money circulation, the features of the creaking distribution system in a dual economy (which clearly ignores the slogan of Zhvanetsky's character: from tomorrow everything is on the market), through showing that the printing press is not yet deficient in financing.

However, the main thing in the book is different-the experience of models of modern world development, which is also largely based on the search for ways to overcome backwardness by developing countries, but not on their own.

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only. The author is convinced that modern civilization is already close to completing the creation of the optimal option. The problem is solved by connecting the market and the plan, transforming the system of economic organization and management, including the model of a regulated market economy and economic democracy. There really seems to be no alternative to this option in the modern world. For transitional societies, this is of fundamental importance when implementing reforms, as those that have failed are replaced by others that are more effective. In addition, States in such a state have no other way to defend their vital interests in the context of the current uncontrolled globalization. In turn, the developed world needs planned foresight, if only because without it it is impossible to solve the grandiose tasks that the technological era puts forward, as well as due to the impending resource and environmental crisis, which the traditional market will also not be able to solve.

A. I. Dinkevich reminds: the history of the XX - beginning of the XXI century knows several models of economic organization, management and functioning. They successively replaced one another. This is a model of the market economy of the previous stages, mainly developed in the late XIX-early XX centuries. It was followed by the model of a regulated market economy, which passed several rounds in its development after the crisis of 1929-1933 and was supplemented in the second half of the last century by the system of economic democracy. From this model, the third one matures. It is associated with fundamental changes both in the systems of organization and management, and in the relations of distribution (an unprecedented social factor for societies). These three main models form the general trajectory of socio-economic development, embodying its different stages and simultaneously the possibility and goal of moving either back to the beginning of the last century, or to the modern model, or forward to the still emerging one. However, according to some experts, there is also a fourth problem - the return of transitional societies to the former administrative system. But this is a socio-economic regression (the administrative-command system on the example of the USSR in the book is given a good analysis).

Thus, the implementation of the first of the three above-mentioned models would mean an attempt to return to the initial stages of the development of capitalism. I won't even bother to comment on this option. The second one is definitely progressive. But the third, which is still being formed, as the author concludes, will be the highest achievement of modern civilization. This model of a regulated, maximally socially oriented market economy is implemented on the basis of significant changes in capitalism, in its organizational and functional structures, in changes that have no analogues in the past.

Well, that's a good idea. We'll wait and see.

Now about the benefits of enlightenment. Knowing the economy of developing countries and what the author described on the example of Russia over the past two decades, you are amazed: how could it happen that the well-known "third world" was a secret only for the domestic polichinel.

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