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

• Introduction Part I. The Origins of the Russian synthesis Chapter 1. The prehistory of the Russian synthesis Chapter 2. Classical political economy in Russia Chapter 3. Marginalism in Russia Part II. The Russian synthesis Chapter 4. Tugan-Baranovsky on capitalism and socialism Chapter 5. Tugan-Baranovsky’s synthesis Chapter 6. The mathematicians’ syntheses Conclusion

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

• Introduction Part I. The Origins of the Russian synthesis Chapter 1. The prehistory of the Russian synthesis Chapter 2. Classical political economy in Russia Chapter 3. Marginalism in Russia Part II. The Russian synthesis Chapter 4. Tugan-Baranovsky on capitalism and socialism Chapter 5. Tugan-Baranovsky’s synthesis Chapter 6. The mathematicians’ syntheses Conclusion