This article offers a detailed presentation of the criticism by J.M. Ossipov on the discipline of economics, which, as he considers, is breaking off from its subject, and in connection with this, he advocates the return of the economic science back to its classical and philosophical foundations....

This paper presents a detailed criticism of U. M. Ossipov’s thesis concerning the science of Economics, which he claims to be drifting away from its subject and who, in that connection, advocates the return of economic science to its classical and philosophical foundations. A constructive...

The aspects of institutions’ influence on economic growth and the priorities of their development are studied in the article. Two complementary analytical techniques are suggested. The first one, based on the discrete institutional alternatives method, is aimed at the "institutional design"...

The article is an answer to the publication The Ideas of Ludwig von Mises for the Development of the Austrian Economic School by N. Gerchev (iss. 4/ 2005), constructed as a critical analysis of positions and statements, presented in our study on the Austrian School. An attitude has been taken...

An attempt is made for critical assessment of a fundamental category of the neoclassical economics by means of the contemporary institutional and evolutionary analysis. The concept of the scarcity of the economic goods is critically analysed within evolutionary-biological, social and specific...

The article analyses the main postulates of the evolution – institutional theory, that has emerged in 1980s as a unity of the third stage of the development of the "old" institutionalism and the evolution economic theory. The main achievements of three representatives of this trend are...

This is an attempt to rationalise a fundamental category of modern neoclassical economics from a critical point of view using the tools of the modern institutional and evolutionary economic analysis. The scarcity concept of economic goods has been critically analysed in an evolutionary and...

An attempt was made to sum up the basic socio-economic issues in Karl Polanyi's book “The Great Transformation”, which is less known by the economists in our country. Suggesting an alternative to Marx's market economic analysis at the early stages of establishing and imposing the capitalist...

This article summarizes some unorthodox aspects of the institutional approach to the markets as social structures (institutions). Demonstrated is the possibility to extend the new institutional analysis, based on the concepts of formal and informal rules, property rights, transaction costs,...

Subject of research are the nature and mechanism for realization of the system-forming functions (economization, socialization and organization) of vital activity in the context of the economic civilization. They are generalized on the basis of the main in the sphere (economic, social and...