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Anna Klimina

  • Assistant Professor
  • St. Thomas More College
  • 1437 College Drive Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W6
  • Phone: 306.966.8934
  • aklimina@stmcollege.ca
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Education | Research Interests | Research Projects | Selected Publications
Teaching Responsibilities | Administrative Responsibilities

Education

  • (2004) PhD. in Economics, University of Manitoba, Canada
  • (1992) Candidate of Sciences Degree in Economics (PhD equivalent), Institute of Economics of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine
  • (1987) M.A. in Economics (with honors), Kiev State University, Ukraine

Research Interests

  • Institutional Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economics of Transition

Research Projects

  • Patristic Legacy of Russian Philosophy of Ownership and Its Impact on the Development of the Liberal Tradition in Russia: Late XIXth - Early XXIst Centuries
  • The Myth of “Russian” Institutionalism: to an analysis of the nature of “ethical political economy” in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
  • On plurality of possible paths of post-communist transformation: the relevance of traditional evolutionary-institutionalist perspective
  • An Institutional-Evolutionary Approach to the Analysis of State Capture: How to Challenge a Status Quo between National Oligarchies and Public Interest

Selected Publications and Presentations

Recent publications
  1. Anna Klimina (2009) Toward an Evolutionary-Institutionalist Concept of State Capture: The Relevance of Kaleckian Analysis of Non-Equilibrium Dynamics Journal of Economic Issues Vol. XLIII, No.2, pp. 371-380
  2. Anna Klimina (2008) On Misuse of the term “Institutionalist” in the analysis of Russian academic economics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: the case of Michail Tugan-Baranovsky (1865-1919) Economic Bulletin, Vol.2, No. 2, pp. 1-9
  3. Anna Klimina (2008) Veblenian Concept of Habit and Its Relevance to the Analysis of Captured Transition  Journal of Economic Issues Vol. XLII, No.2, pp. 545-552

Recent Conference Papers

(2009) Patristic Legacy of Russian Philosophy of Ownership and Its Impact on the Development of the Liberal Tradition in Russia: Late XIXth - Early XXIst Centuries Paper at the 36th Annual Meeting of the History of Economics Society Denver University, Colorado, June 29

(2009) On plurality of possible paths of post-communist transformation: the relevance of traditional evolutionary-institutionalist perspective Paper at the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Carlton University, Ottawa, May 30

(2009) An Institutional-Evolutionary Approach to the Analysis of State Capture: How to Challenge a Status Quo between National Oligarchies and Public Interest Paper at the Annual Meetings of American Economic Association/Association for Evolutionary Economics San-Francisco, USA, January 4

(2008) The Myth of Russian Institutionalism: to an analysis of the nature of “ethical political  economy” in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Paper at the 35th Annual Meeting of the History of Economics Society York University, Toronto, June 28

(2008) Veblenian Concept of Habit and its Manifestation in the Model of Ingrained  Equilibrium: the case of clannish transition Paper at the Annual Meetings of American Economic Association/Association for Evolutionary Economics  New Orleans, USA, January 4

(2007) Investment growth under institutional change: the contribution of Kalecki’s (1954) growth model Paper at the 34th Annual Meeting of the History of Economics Society George Mason University, 2007, Fairfax, Virginia, USA, June 10

(2007) Model of Cultural Equilibrium and its Relevance to the Analysis of Oligarchic Transition Paper at the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, May 27

(2006) Path-Dependency, Increasing Returns and Multiple-Equilibria in Transition: Modelling a Move From Plan to Clan. Paper at the 40th Annual Meetings of the Canadian Economic Association, Concordia University, Montreal, May 27, 2006.

Teaching Responsibilities

  • Teaching Economics of Transition (Econ 272)
  • History of Economic Thought (Econ 380)
  • Introductory Economics (Econ 111 and Econ 114)
  • Intermediate  Macroeconomics (Econ 214)
  • Economic Development  (Econ 270)

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Member of the Teaching Committee (2009-2011)
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STM President, 2000 - Present