Background
NOVE, Alexander was born on November 24, 1915 in Leningrad. Son of Jacob and Rachel Novakovsky.
NOVE, Alexander was born on November 24, 1915 in Leningrad. Son of Jacob and Rachel Novakovsky.
He attended King Alfred School in London and received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1936.
According to Ian Doctorate. Thatcher, "he consensus is that he was one of the most significant scholars of "Soviet" studies in its widest sense and beyond."
The school later made him an Honorary Fellow in 1982. He served in the Army between 1939 and 1946. From 1947 to 1958, he worked in Civil Service, mainly the Board of Trade.
He was a Reader in Russian Social and Economic Studies at the University of London from 1958 to 1963 and Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow from 1963 to 1982.
He was then Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Glasgow until his death in 1994.
The evolution of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and of Soviet-type economies. Economies of socialism. Efficiency criteria of nationalised industries in East and West.
The Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics as a model of development. Planning methods in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and in developing countries. Socialist agriculture.
Russian and Soviet economic thought. Comparative systems; the interaction of political, economic and historical factors in Soviet history.
Married Irene MacPherson in 1951.