Louçã, Francisco2022-11-032022-11-031999Louçã, Francisco.(1999). “Nikolai Kondratiev and the early consensus and dissensions about history and statistics”. History of Political Economy, Vol. 31, No. 11527-1919http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/25886Nikolai Kondratiev (1892-1938) was one of the most. if not the most influential of the talented young Russian economists working in the first third of this century, and certainly the best known internationally at that time. His decisive contribution was the presentation of the hypothesis of the long waves in capitalist development—named by Joseph Schumpeter and known thereafter as "Kondratiev waves." - that for some time was an important topic in the research agenda of economics. Nevertheless, the contemporary dominance of equilibrium economics exiled this research to the fringes of economic history, which is still considered to be a secondary, and not entirely scientific, distant relative of the discipline.engHistory of Economic ThinkingCapitalismTheoryStatisticsRussiajournal article