Danila Raskov

Short presentation

Danila Raskov's research spans monetary history, the origins of early political economy, economic methodology, and the interplay between economics and religion. He is the author of two books: 'The Economic Institutions of Old Believers' (2012) and 'The Rhetoric of Institutional Economics' (2023).

Biography

Danila Raskov is a researcher at Uppsala U, Department of Economic History delving a project on a role of copper as international money in the long seventeenth century. He holds a PhD in Economic History from St Petersburg State U. His research spans the origins of early political economy, the history of monetary institutions, economic methodology, and the issues related to economics and religion. Prior to Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies of Helsinki U (2022-2024), Raskov served as the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Smolny College in St. Petersburg. At the Collegium, his project explored the study of cameralism as a system of thought and a practice of governance in the long eighteenth-century Northern Europe. The project reexamined the Kameralwissenschaften discourses’ role in shaping the institutions and academic language of the Russian Empire within the context of Enlightenment and Baroque. Raskov was also a researcher in Walras and Pareto Center, U of Lausanne (2012, 2017), HCAS (2015) and in Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen U (2018). He had been serving on the Council of The European Society of the History of Economic Thought (2018-2024). He is the author of books: 'The Economic Institutions of Old Believers' (St. Petersburg U Press, 2012) and 'The Rhetoric of Institutional Economics' (Gaidar Institute, 2023). His recent publications on political economy have appeared in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Business History, History of the Human Sciences, and in the thematic volumes published by De Gruyter, Routledge, and Palgrave MacMillan.