J. SAPIR

Professor of Economics at the Higher School of Social Sciences (Paris, France), Director of the Center for Industrialization Research CEMIEHESS, Visiting Professor of the Department of General Economic Theory at the Moscow School of Economics Lomonosov Moscow State University, foreign member of the RAS, Dr. Sc. (Economics). Author of a large number of scientiﬁc publications, including: “Economic changes in the USSR in 1941–1985”, “Work and workers in the USSR”, “Towards the economic theory of heterogeneous systems – the experience of studying a decentralized economy”, “Russian Transformation – 20 years later” (co-author), “Sovereignty, Democracy, the secular state”, “The eﬀ ectiveness of integration processes: an innovative assessment method”, “The relationship between monetary policy and economic development in modern Europe: problems and possible solutions”, “Has the creation of the euroarea become an oncological disease for the European Union?”, etc. Member of the editorial Board of the journal “Economics of Industry” (Moscow). Scientiﬁc advisor to a number of organizations and programs (European Commission, TACIS, PHARE, etc.).

Report — HOW COULD THE BRICS (AND THE BRICS+) ANSWER THE DEMAND OF A CHANGE IN GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS AND WHAT COULD BE THE CONSEQUENCES