Forty years ago, Alvin and Heidi Toffler recognized that the pace of environmental change was rapidly accelerating and threatened to overwhelm the relatively slow pace of human response.

Formal privatization of ownership has not led in Russia to privatizing economic responsibility.

Opening Remarks.

Motives of awarding Nobel Prizes in economics began to resemble each other like cars; brands and their manufacturers are different, but the cars are practically identical.

It should be acknowledged that by Lend-Lease we also received rather low-quality, non-standard products from the allies. But we paid for the supply in gold, and in considerable quantities.

Mineral and raw materials potential of Russia is enormous, and it is not only the claim to fame for the Russians, but also an object of envy for the world’s capital.

The crisis generated by the separation of finance from the real sector can not be considered an occasional phenomenon. On the contrary, such concourse of circumstances is rather natural.