Andrey Korotayev
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Andrey Korotayev over the Rift Valley, North Tanzania, November 2008
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| Born |
February 17, 1961 Moscow |
| Residence | Russia |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Fields | cross-cultural studies, mathematical modeling of social, economic, and historical dynamics; Islamic and pre-Islamic history |
| Institutions |
National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) Institute for Advanced Study(Princeton) Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Known for | contributions to mathematical modeling of the World System development and cross-cultural studies |
| Influences | Max Weber, Karl Popper, Ibn Khaldun, Andre Gunder Frank, George Peter Murdock, Heinz von Foerster, Ernest Gellner |
| Notable awards | Russian Science Support Foundation Award in "The Best Economists of the Russian Academy of Sciences" nomination (2006) In 2012 he was awarded with the Gold Kondratieff Medal by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation. |
Andrey Vitalievich Korotayev (Russian: Андре́й Вита́льевич Корота́ев; born February 17, 1961) is a Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural studies, Near Eastern history, Big History, and mathematical modeling of social and economic macrodynamics.
He is currently the Head of the Laboratory of Monitoring of the Risks of Sociopolitical Destabilization of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, and a Senior Research Professor at the Center for Big History and System Forecasting of the Institute of Oriental Studies [4] [5] as well as in the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
In addition, he is a Senior Research Professor of the International Laboratory on Political Demography and Social Macrodynamics (PDSM) of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration,[6] as well as a Full Professor of the Faculty of Global Studies of the Moscow State University.
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