在西方的著作中,苏联俄罗斯经济学家尼·康德拉季耶夫被认为是长波论的奠基人。的确,康德拉季耶夫是试图不仅从统计上划分出资本主义经济发展长期趋势,而且对这种趋势作出广泛解释的第一位学者。他对近一个半世纪以来英国、法国、德国和美国的价格、资本利息、多种商品的生产和消费的平均水平、工资水平和许多其他指标进行了精细的分析, In the works of the West, the Soviet Russian economist Nikan Kondratiev was considered the founder of the Long Wave Theory. Indeed, Kondratiev was the first scholar to try to not only statistically divide the long-term trend of capitalist economic development, but also to explain it broadly. He gave a detailed analysis of the prices of the United Kingdom, France, Germany and the United States, the interest on capital, the average level of production and consumption of various commodities, wages and many other indicators for the past century and a half,