Anatoly Pokrytan

Anatoly Karpovych Pokrytan (Ukrainian: Анатолій Карпович Покритан; 2 December 1920 – 27 September 2003) was a Soviet and Ukrainian economist.

He founded the Odesa Scientific School of Economic Thought at Odesa National Economics University, where he worked for over fifty years and was head of the Department of Political Economy.

[1] Pokrytan studied at graduate school at Kyiv State University in the early 1950s, during the debates following Stalin's 1951 Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR.

In the early 1960s he co-authored a monograph on property in the Soviet economic system with V. I. Kasatkina and V. N. Mazur.

He also wrote several works on the theory of social reproduction.