Abstracts of main articles

Settlement System Crisis in Connection with Radical Transformation of Spatial Organization of Russian Society

Author

Leksin V.N. Sc.D. (Economics), Professor, chief research associate of Institute of Systems Analysis, RAS

Abstract

The author aims at communicating to readers the very significance of the problem set and outlining the concepts of its resolution. Hence, the paper: 1) discloses the gist of the notions «settlement system» and «spatial organization» of the respective social phenomena throughout centuries-long historical evolution of this country; 2) consistently reviews the situation in the soviet period and the post-soviet specifics of territorial arrangement in Russia, crisis processes in urban and rural settlement as well as the balance of declared and actual role of municipalities in securing viability of all settlements in the RF.

Key words

settlement system, spatial organization of society, administrative-territorial units, federalism, urban Russia, rural Russia, regional capitals, administrative reform, municipal reform.

Evolution of Russia`s Taxation System and Opportunities for Employing Fiscal Tools for Boosting Economic Development (Closing Part)

Author

Petrov Yu.A. Ph.D., Head, Financial Mechanisms of Economic Development Lab, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, RAS

Abstract

Closing part of the article, whose beginning and abstract (including key words) were published in No. 6 of «Russian Economic Journal» for 2011.

Key words

taxation systems in the USA, Great Britain, Germany, France and Italy, taxes as a method of funding public goods, taxes and exports of capital, taxes and illegal exports of capital.

«Information Society»: Theory and Practice of Evolution in the World and in Russia. Article 5. Spatial Aspects of ICT Dissemination: the Process and Results of Russia Regions and Cities Computerization (Sequel)

Author

Shvetsov A.N., Sc.D. (Economics), Professor, Deputy Director of Institute of Systems Analysis, RAS

Abstract

Sequel to the article, whose beginning and abstract (including key words) were published in No. 6 of «Russian Economic Journal» for 2011.

Key words

meeting of the Council on development of information society under RF President on 12 February 2009, joint meeting of State Council of the RF and Council on development of information society under RF President on 23 December 2009, international conference on «Main tasks of building electronic government on regional level» in Perm in May 2010, 4th All-Russia forum on «Electronic government — modern tool of region administration» in Tyumen in November 2011.

Two Political Economies: of Socioeconomic Development and of Business Processes (Objective Conditionality of Different Methodological Approaches and Irreducibility of Theoretical Results)

Author

Lyubinin A.B., Sc.D. (Economics), Professor

Abstract

The article puts up and argues in favor of a nontrivial thesis of that the classical (Marxist, in the apex of its evolution) political economy and neoclassical political economy (economics) are not in effect the two branches of same science «political economy» (general economic theory) but rather two independent general theoretical disciplines distinguished by the subject, method and theoretical results. The author believes that the latter are of different quality, hence, irreducible in principle. Denying the possibility of an «organic» synthesis of the two political economies into a single theory, the author not only concedes but assumes an «inorganic» synthesis thereof necessary, hence cooperation of their representatives with a view to developing effective concrete recommendations for subjects of state economic, including anti-crisis, policy.

Key words

classical political economy, neoclassical political economy, general economic theory, economics, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall, Karl Marx`s "Capital", Marshal`s "Principles of economics", national economy