Управленческие науки (Dec 2015)
RESEARCH PROSPECTS AND MANAGEMENT HORIZONS OF SYSTEM ECONOMICS
Abstract
The article is largely programmatic in nature and contains a brief outline of basic notions, constructions and results of the system economics, including several new concepts of creating sustainable system complexes - tetrads, and the further evolution of system economics. In this concept economics on the whole is seen as a unity of economic theory, economic policy, economic practice and the sphere of economic management. Accordingly, system economics in a broad sense covers the system economics theory, system economics policy, system properties of economic practices and system characteristics of the sphere of economic management. System economics theory is intended to integrate key provisions of traditional economic theory, neoclassical theory, as well as institutional and evolutionary theories based on the concepts of the general theory of systems and spatial-temporal analysis. Combining these approaches helps to shed light on the causes of inefficiencies and imbalances at different levels of the economy, to extend the scope of economic policy to solving the problems of harmonization and coordination of agents’ activities, implementation of projects, realization of economic processes and development of economic environments. Thereby, all major components of the economy are included into a single conceptual model of the economy functioning. The mission of the system economics under this approach is in performing the role of a single theoretical platform for the evolution of economic theory, economic policy, economic practice and the sphere of economic management.The article presents a structural scheme of the system economics theory genesis; it shows differences of the system economics theory from neoclassical, institutional and evolutionary theories according to such features as the analysis basic unit and the main, from the point of view of this theory, type of relations between agents. The article also considers the dominant type of equilibrium in economics and the most important type of relations between economic factors and economic results. The article emphasizes the role of tetrads - structural complexes of four systems of different types - in the system organization of the economy; it identifies different sources of tetrads formation. The article also illustrates that each system is unambiguously linked to the tetrad, consisting of the combination of all subsystems of each type (object, design, environmental and process types). In terms of a country’s economy it leads to its presentation in the form of the combination of the object, design, environmental and process sectors of the economy. The extensive scheme of the relations between the sectors is given. The list of the main trends in the system economics evolution is presented.
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