Alexander Dolgin
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Alexander Dolgin | |
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| Born | January 17, 1961 Kyiv |
| Alma mater | National University of Science and Technology MISiS |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics, economics |
Alexander Borisovich Dolgin (born January 17, 1961; Kyiv) is a Russian entrepreneur, metallurgist, and professor. He was manager of the Imhonet recommendation service, which closed in 2017.[1]
Dolgin graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Steel and Alloys with a degree in metal physics in 1983. He is a Candidate of Technical Sciences and an author of more than 300 scientific articles. He studied the properties of metals.[2][3]
Career
Dolgin founded and led the metallurgical holding Soyuznikhrom from 1992 until 2006. This venture included the Vladimir plant of precision alloys, the Factory of Metal Hoses, and NPO Magneton. He founded the scientific research fund Pragmatics of Culture in 2001.[4] He became a professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in 2003. Dolgin founded the development company Urban Group and the Internet recommendation service Imhonet in 2007. He was the first investor in the online book trading service Litres.[5] Alexander published journals Logos (philosophy) and Critical Mass (culturology) in 2001.
Dolgin became a citizen of Cyprus in 2016.
Dolgin owns the companies DCA (Digital Centric Alliance), internet counter Openstat, and DSL.[3]
Dolgin's research topics include the economy of symbolic exchange, the quality of subjective personal time, degrading selection in information markets, inter-externalities (intrapersonal externalities), autoreputation, crowdsourcing expertise (user-certified content), advertising on trust, specification of rights to freedom of speech.[3]
