A consistent opponent of the liberal approach in the economy has gained fame thanks to harsh criticism of the Russian government, which, in his opinion, is a supporter of liberalism.
Economist Mikhail Khazin is one of the country's top rated and quoted analysts. A former presidential administration official is currently involved in counseling, and has been a frequent speaker on television and radio.
Origin
The future economist Mikhail Khazin was born on May 5, 1962 in a Moscow intelligent family, where there were several generations of hereditary mathematicians. Father, Leonid G. Khazin, worked as a leading researcher at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and specialized in new areas of stability theory. Mom taught students higher mathematics and mathematical analysis at the Institute of Electronic Engineering.
His grandfather, Khazin Grigory Leyzerovich, was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1949 for his participation in the development of the air defense system of Moscow, but officially for the development of new equipment. He worked at a closed enterprise of the Ministry of State Security, where he specialized in creating air defense systems.
The economist Khazin has a brother who is seven years younger. Engaged in art history, academician of the Russian Academy of Arts.
early years
At the age of 7, Mikhail was sent to continue family traditions in a specialized school with a mathematical bias. Secondary school No. 179 was famous in the capital for its high level of education. In an interview, the economist Khazin said that he always dreamed of studying at Moscow State University, which his parents had once graduated from. However, immediately after receiving a matriculation certificate in 1979, he managed to enter only Yaroslavl State University. Why - it is reliably unknown, according to one version of Russian publications, possibly because of Jewish nationality.
Thanks to the stubbornness of the young man and the support of his relatives, the dream came true the next year, when Leonid transferred to the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University. A year later, he chose the department of probability theory. In 1984, he graduated from the university with a degree in extras.
Start of work
After graduation, he was sent for distribution to the Institute of Physical Chemistry. Over the next five years (from 1984 to 1989), he specialized in solving applied problems of chemical physics and their theoretical justification. On the official website of the institute, you can still see the annotations of several works of Khazin in statistical physics.
In the early nineties, the first to feel a lack of funding were institutions involved in basic research. Mikhail had to look for another job, leaving science. In one speech, the Russian economist Mikhail Khazin said that the achievements of those years were sufficient to defend not only a candidate dissertation, but also a doctoral one.
During the years of perestroika
Since 1989, for two years, the young specialist worked at the Institute of Statistics of the USSR State Statistics Committee, which was led by Emil Ershov. At this time, Mikhail Leonidovich and retrained, taking up the statistics of the country's national economy. From these years he began to closely study economic science and pay special attention to the problems of the emergence of economic crises.
With the beginning of the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the institutes completely stopped paying wages, the economist Khazin decided to switch to work in the newly formed private sector. For about a year, he led the analytical department at Elbim Bank. Mikhail Leonidovich later admitted that he was not created for business, so he again had to look for work.
In public service
In 1993, Khazin entered the public service. In 1994, he worked at the Center for Economic Reforms under the Russian government, and later from there moved to the Ministry of Economics, where from 1995 to 1997 he headed the credit policy department. According to Mikhail Leonidovich himself, in 1996 they wanted to appoint him to the post of deputy minister, then the department was headed by Evgeny Yasin. However, the conflict with Jacob Urinson (First Deputy Minister of Economy) prevented the increase. Disagreements arose, as economist Khazin said in one of his speeches, because of a report prepared for the ministerial board on non-payments. Then he argued that the contraction of the money supply leads to an increase in inflation, and not to a decrease.
About his work in the public service of that period, the economist Khazin said that the main task for himself was the following: to understand how the country's economy really works and to remove possible obstacles to economic growth.
In the presidential administration
In 1997, Mikhail Leonidovich went to work in the presidential administration. Until June 1998, he worked as deputy head of the economic department. Khazin openly says that he was fired for his harshness and uncompromising attitude. After being dismissed for ten years, he was not allowed to travel abroad. The economist Khazin claims that in 1997 management predicted that under current economic policies, a crisis in the country was inevitable.
Since 2002, he has been consulting, headed the consulting company Neocon. In recent years, he is a constant expert on political talk shows, and conducts economic and political programs on Internet channels, radio and television. Forecasts, reviews and the opinion of the economist Khazin about Russia (the current situation, current issues) are constantly cited by the country's leading publications. Mikhail Leonidovich has his own website, which publishes reviews of the state of the world and Russian economies, forecasts and speeches of leading experts on this issue.
Economic views and forecasts
In 2003, the book The Sunset of the Dollar Empire and the End of Pax Americana was published, co-authored with A. Kobyakov. It outlined the main provisions of economic theory about the causes of world economic crises. Khazin believes that the main problem is the reduction in final demand, uncontrolled and excessive emission of the dollar.
Among the resonant recent speeches of the economist Khazin, there is his interview in which he said that there are still oligarchs in Russia. For example, he considers them to be all those who received their wealth as a result of privatization. He did not say how many of them, noting that many of them are listed in the Russian Forbes magazine ranking. Also in the program on the Ekho Moskvy radio station, a well-known expert spoke out negatively about the pension reform, which he called a political provocation.
