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Vladimer Papava
Vladimer Papava (Georgian: ვლადიმერ პაპავა) (born March 25, 1955) is a Professor of Economics at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, an Academician at the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (2013), the former Rector of the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (August 16, 2013 – April 20, 2016), and the former Minister of Economy of Georgia (June, 1994 – May, 2000).

Life and career
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Vladimer Papava graduated Tbilisi State University (with a specialization in Economic Cybernetics) in 1977. He received his Candidate of Science degree in Economics (PhD) from the Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, in 1982, and his Doctor of Science degree in Economics from Tbilisi State University in 1989 and Leningrad State University in 1990. In 2005-2006 he was a Visiting Scholar at the Central Asia–Caucasus Institute ([1]), the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.[1] He is the author of more than 400 publications, including many works on the theoretical and applied studies on post-Communist economies and the economic development of the Central Caucasus countries. His research efforts are underpinned by practical experience gained during his work for the Georgian Government: from 1994 to 2000, as Minister of Economy he was actively involved in currency reform, the liberalization of the economy, including the liberalization of foreign trade, institutional transformations and other ambitious governmental programs. As a member of the Georgian Government and an Alternative Governor of the World Bank, he was one of the main participants in the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. From 2004 to 2008 he was a Member of the Parliament of Georgia (Committee for Finance and Budget). In 2013 He was elected on the position of the Rector of the main university of Georgia – Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Contributions to economics
Vladimer Papava is an author of the Semi-Productive Matrix Approach for Input-Output Models, the Theory of the Economic Ability of the Government and Egalitarian Goods, the Model of an ‘Economy Without Taxes,’ the Theory of Laffer-Keynesian Synthesis, the Theory of the ‘Shadow Political Economy’ (with Nodar Khaduri), the Indexes of Tax Corruption, the Method of the ‘Social Promotion’ for Post-Communist Transition to Market Economy, the Doctrine of Market Equality and Its Application to the Process of Post-Communist Transformation, the Theory of ‘Necroeconomics – the Political Economy of Post-Communist Capitalism,’ measurment of cattch-up effect in economic growth, and the ) Retroeconomics – the Theory of Moving from Dying to Brisk Economy.

Vladimer Papava (with Eldar Ismailov) elaborated the geopolitical Concept of the Central Caucasus. He also is an author of the geopolitical Concept of the Central Caucaso-Asia.

Vladimer Papava is a Member of the Editorial Boards of the Problems of Economic Transition (USA) ([2]), Central Asia and the Caucasus (Sweden) ([4]), European Journal of Economic Studies (Slovak Republic) ([5]), Transformations (Poland) ([7]), Economy of Ukraine (Ukraine) ([8]), Society and Economy (Russia) ([9]), and Finance: Theory and Practice (Russia) ([10]). In 1992-2005 he was the Chief-Editor of the Proceedings of the Georgian Academy of Sciences – Economic Series.

From 1997 Vladimer Papava has been a Corresponding Member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences and an Active Member Academician since 2013. He is an Active Member of the International Academy of Sciences, Education, Industry and Arts (CA, USA), an Active Member of the New York Academy of Sciences (NY, USA), an Active Member of the International Informatization Academy (UN) and other international societies and associations. In 2008-2010 he was the Deputy Chairman of the Scientific Committee for Economics and Law of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences; from 2010 he has been the Chairman of the Scientific Committee for Economics of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences; from 2007 he has been a Member of the CASE (Center for Social and Economic Research) Advisory Council (Warsaw, Poland) and a Member of the International Scientific Council of the International Institute for Social Development (Moscow, Russia). He is also a member of the Tbilisi- based think-tank Rondeli Foundation – Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies.

In 2008 Vladimer Papava was awarded the Philippe Gogichaishvili Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia for the book – Necroeconomics: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Capitalism. New York, iUniverse, 2005([11]).

In 2004 Vladimer Papava together with a group of Georgian economists was awarded the State Prize of Georgia in Science for the Series of Publications – “The Methods and Models of Macroeconomic Regulations.”

Selected bibliography

 * Papava, Vladimer (2011). On the First-Generation    Post-Communist Reforms of Georgia’s Economy (A Retrospective Analysis).     The Caucasus & Globalization, Vol. 5, Issue 3-4, pp. 20–30 ([12]).
 * Papava, Vladimer (2011). Arménie, Azerbaïdjan,    Géorgie: vingt ans de transition économique. Les Cahiers de L'Orient, N°     101, pp. 35–43 ([13]).
 * Papava, Vladimer (2011). Economic Transformation and    the Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis in the Southern Caucasus. In     Mustafa Aydin, ed., Non-Traditional Security Threats and Regional     Cooperation in the Southern Caucasus. Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 17–29     ([14]).
 * Papava, Vladimer (2010). The Problem of    Zombification of the Postcommunist Necroeconomy. Problems of Economic     Transition, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 35–51 ([15]).
 * Papava, Vladimer (2010). The Economic Challenges of    the Black Sea Region: the Global Financial Crisis and Energy Sector     Cooperation. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vo. 10, No. 3,     pp. 361–371 ([16]).
 * Papava, Vladimer (2010). Economy of the    Post-Communist Capitalism under the Financial Crisis. Studies in Economics     and Finance, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 135–147 ([17]).
 * Ismailov, Eldar; Vladimer Papava (2010). Rethinking Central Eurasia. Washington,    D.C.: Johns Hopkins University-SAIS. ISBN 978-91-85937-77-6.     http://www.silkroadstudies.org/new/inside/publications/Rethinking.html.
 * Papava, Vladimer (2010). The    Economic Development Complex in the Black Sea Area: The Impact of the     Global Financial and Economic Crisis. Xenophon Paper, No. 9, May.     Athens: The International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS). ISBN 978-960-6885-16-7.     ISSN 1790-8396.     http://icbss.org/media/113_original.pdf.
 * Papava, Vladimer (2010). Post-Communist Capitalism    and Financial Crisis, or the Mixing of the Necroeconomics and the     Zombie-Nomics. Georgian International Journal of Science and Technology,     Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp. 37–55 ([18]).
 * Papava, Vladimer (2009). Is Zombie Economicus    Coming? The Market Oracle, February 7([19]).
 * Papava, Vladimer (2009). The End of the Frozen Cold    War? Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Vol. 3 (1) – Winter,     pp. 98–102. ([20]).
 * Ismailov, Eldar; Vladimer Papava (2008). The Central Caucasus: Problemss on Geopolitical Economy.    New York: Nova Science Publishers. ISBN 978-1-60456-606-2.     https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=7230&osCsid=1200e2a61ca7d3da6669971ba5f13228.
 * Ismailov, Eldar; Vladimer Papava (2006). Tsentralnyi Kavkaz. Istoriia, politika, ekonomika.    Moscow: Mysl'. ISBN 978-5-244-01086-2.     http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Papava%2C+Ismailov&x=16&y=18.
 * Papava, Vladimer (2005). Necroeconomics: The Political Economy of Post-Communist    Capitalism. New York: iUniverse. ISBN 978-0-595-34915-9.     http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0595349153/ref=sr_11_1/102-4372620-5461756?ie=UTF8.
 * Papava, Vladimer; Teimuraz Beridze (2005). Ocherki    politicheskoi ekonomii post-kommunisticheskogo kapitalizma (Essays on the     Political Economy of Post-Communist Capitalism). Moscow:     Delo i Service. ISBN 5-8018-0256-8.     http://www.books.ru/shop/books/243515.
 * Papava, Vladimer (2005). On the Theory of    Post-Communist Economic Transition to Market. International Journal of     Social Economics, Vol. 32, No. 1/2, pp. 77–97 ([21]).
 * Papava, Vladimer (2004). Central’nyi Kavkaz i    ekonomika Gruzii (The Central Caucasus and the Economy of Georgia). Baku,     “Nurlan,” with Teimuraz Beridze and Eldar Ismailov. (In Russian). [22]
 * Papava, Vladimer; Vepkhia Chocheli (2003). Financial Globalization and Post-Communist Georgia.    New York: iUniverse. ISBN 0-595-30043-X.     http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Papava%2C+Chocheli&x=11&y=21.
 * Papava, Vladimer (2003). Splendours and Miseries of    the IMF in Post-Communist Georgia. Laredo, we-publish.com.
 * Papava, Vladimer (2002). Necroeconomics - the Theory    of Post-Communist Transformation of an Economy. International Journal of     Social Economics, Vol. 29, No. 9-10, pp. 796–805 ([23]).
 * Papava, Vladimer (2001). Necroeconomics and Post-Communist transformation of    Economy. Tbilisi: Imperial. http://pdc.ceu.hu/archive/00001278/01/Necroeconomics.PDF.
 * Papava, Vladimer (2000). State, Public Sector and    Theoretical Prerequisites to a Model of an “Eco­no­my without Taxes”.     International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 27, No. 1-2,     pp. 45–61 ([24]).
 * Papava, Vladimer, and Nodar Khaduri (1997). On the    Shadow Political Economy of the Post-Communist Tran­s­for­­ma­tion: An     Institutional Analysis. Problems of Economic Transition, Vol. 40, No. 6,     pp. 15–34 ([25]).
 * Papava, Vladimer (1996). The Georgian Economy: From    “Shock Therapy” to “Social Promo­tion” (Theory of Laffer-Keynesian     Synthesis). Communist Economies & Economic Transformation, Vol. 8, No.     2, pp. 251–267 ([26]).
 * Papava, Vladimer (1995). Marxist Points of View on    the Soviet Communist Economic System and the Manifestation of     Egalitarianism in Post-Communist Economic Reform. International Journal of     Social Economics, Vol. 22, No.6, pp. 29–37 ([27]).
 * Papava, Vladimer (1993). A New View of the Economic    Ability of the Government, Egalitarian Goods and GNP. International     Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 20, No.8, pp. 56–62 ([28]).
 * Papava, Vladimer (1988). Effertivnost    obshchestvennogo proizvodstva i mezhotraslevye vodeli (Efficiency of     Social Production in the Input-Output Models). Tbilisi, “Metsniereba,”     1988. (In Russian).