| ID | 088005 |
| Title Proper | Next big thing |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Enriquez, Juan |
| Publication | 2009. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | S NIKOLAI KONDRATIEV SHIVERED before his executioners on a wintry Siberian morning in 1938, he could scarcely have imagined that, 71 years later, his name would be resurrected by a new generation of business theorists and management gurus seeking to understand the first Great Recession of the 21st century.
A prime mover behind Lenin's 1921 New Economic Policy, which briefly rehabilitated capitalism in order to save a young Soviet Union from imminent collapse, Kondratiev was an intellectual insurgent in a time and place where heresy could get one killed. Kondratiev theorized that economic activity took place in long waves: 50- or 60-year periods of creativity and growth followed by briefer contractions, after which the cycle would begin anew. |
| `In' analytical Note | Foreign Policy Vol. , 172; May/Jun: p82-95 |
| Journal Source | Foreign Policy Vol. , 172; May/Jun: p82-95 |
| Key Words | Next ; Big ; Thing |