State Viewed by Economists

Abstract

The article studies issues of transforming the institution of state in today’s conditions. Special attention is paid to the following questions: characteristic features of state as a specific social and economic institution; immanent contradictions of the institution; lines in state development in conditions of world economic ties globalization; digitalization of the communication system and ecological interdependence. The given approach to research is characterized by its focus on economic aspects of current changes. The goal of the article is to find out key spots of mutual impact of state and economic system. The authors discuss such problems as reshaping the system of contacts inside state and among them, the role of state in controlling key resources, dubious nature of state as an institution, watering state borders, citizenship in conditions of cosmopolitanism, feasibility of such form of public life organization as people’s rule, the role of culture in forming and retaining the institution of state, the impact of pandemia on evolution of interstate relations. Co-authors’ opinions are not always the same, however, they adhere to the common approach to researching the phenomenon of state as a developing and transforming institution. The article was written on the basis of materials of the seminar held in the Central Institute of Economics and Mathematics RAN within the frames of the ‘Makarov’s Gathering’ Club.

Keywords

• state
• government
• state features
• sovereignty
• government by people
• digitalization
• globalization
• resource controlling
• network structures