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Zherebin V.M.
Phenomenon of Information: Îne
More Attempt of Interpretation
In this article an
attempt is presented to consider and interpret the phenomenon of
information in
the process of it’s evolution, beginning from its rise till the modern
social
forms. The thesis is substantiated that information in spite of the
accepted
conception is not an attribute of the matter in general but it appears
only
together with the animate life and presents it’s inherent part. The
process of
the evolution of information and modern concepts of it from the point
of view
of the general information theory are considered. As the evolution of
information, development of concepts of it and the growth of
information
possibilities of society are interconnected they are examined in
parallel.
This article
focuses on the phenomenon of the «institutional matrixes theory» from
positions
of validity of the forecast about not-democratic development of Russia.
Analysis is built on consideration of internal structure of
institutional
matrixes, their external surrounding and based institutes. Opened
essence of
the theory construction method by separations of positions, unoriginal
from
west- and russia- institutionalizm, on the one hand, and analysis of
own
contribution of author of given theory, with the another. The
conclusions are
done on internal discoordination of key positions, confusing based
categories
and essential contradictions to facts of social reality. In article
opposed
traditional paradigm «West-East» as it reproduced in «institutional
matrixes
theory», and the new picture of the world on the basis of
razdatok-economy
theory forecasting democratic development for Russia.
The article
highlights the results of the theoretical modeling of the economy
within the
institutional matrices theory framework. The methodology is also based
on the
marginal costs theory, substantive approach of Karl Polanyi, the idea
of social
mechanism of economic development worked out by T. I. Zaslavskaya, «the
razdatok-economy theory» of O. E. Bessonova and H. Leibenstein’s
X-efficiency
theory. The economy is modeled as evolutionary developing structure of
interacted market and redistributive institutions. If branches with
diminishing
marginal returns prevail in the economy, the market institutions are
the main,
whereas the redistributive institutions are the additional. On the
contrary, if
the increasing marginal returns branches dominate, the redistributive
economic
institutions play a framework role, while the market institutions serve
as
complimentary or additional ones.
In the paper,
generated by O.E.Bessonova and S.G.Kirdina publications on
institutional
matrices, a Douglas North interpretation of their characteristics is
considered. It is showed that his interpretation of an institutional
matrix –
as a complex of interdependent rules and informal constraints that in
total
determine economic performance – is differed from that of Russian
scholars.
According to North there are increasing returns in the nature of
institutional
matrices, but that is not the case in the domestic publications. A
North’s
notion of institutional matrix is not connected to a certain level: it
could
not be qualified as macro- or micro-unit of analysis. As the same time
Bessonova and Kirdina consider it as a macro-analytical category as
distinct
from this paper author’s approach to institutional matrix as a
micro-analytical
category. An answer to the question «is an institutional matrix an
institutional matrix» is as follows: it is and it is not. The reason is
a subjective
factor not allowing completely account various approaches to the notion.
The article is
devoted to the issues of regulating the sphere of housing and communal
services
and creating mechanisms for stimulating reduction of housing and
communal
sector enterprise costs till the possible minimum. Authors use the
example of
water supply to offer the analysis of the current system of norms and
tariffs
and propose original methodology for determining «normative» cost price
under
the objective conditions of functioning of enterprises in the sector of
housing
and communal services.
The level of crimes
impact of probability and stringency of punishment are analyzed. Both
non-effectiveness of the principle of the inevitability of punishment
and
insufficient probability of punishment was shown.
The article gives
the concrete approaches to the definition of contents of Labour
potential of
workers. The article deals with the basic principles concerning the
particulars
of labour potential measurements. The article shows the possibility of
measurement of the concentration of Labour potential by means of
«Lorenz curve»
and the concentrational curves.
In the article on
the basis of foreign experience of formation of technological policy
and models
of technological forecasting are set up to a fundamentals of
construction of a
innovational development strategy of the Russian economics, the
development of
a domestic innovational system is parsed, the models of partnership and
cooperation of RFBR for support a fundamental scientific researches are
offered.
Fetisov G.G.
Inflation and Maintenance of Price Level Stability. Part 2
The material is
published as the manual for the students studying economy. The article
focuses
on the concepts of inflation and price growth. It argues that the
identification of these concepts is erroneous. Analyses the divergences
between
various indicators of the 1992–2005 price level growth in Russia. The
reasons
and consequences of inflation in modern economy are formulated.
The author’s point
of view on globalization is stated and relations between aims and means
in
modern society are examined in the article. The author points out the
tendency
to absolutize means to achieve aims in modern economy. The work also
gives
analysis of power relations, which occur in the society and exceptions,
created
on the basis of these power relations.
Kumo
K. Population
Shift in the Postsoviet Russia
In work changes of
directions of inter-regional migration in Russia before disintegration
of
Soviet Union are considered. The factors of migration operated in 1980,
1985
and during with 1994 on 2003 on the basis of the simple quantitative
analysis
are analyzed. The infrastructure or ecological situation speaks
influences
which such economic forces, as render on decision-making on migration
the size
of the market. The logic of large-scale migration from regions of the
Far North
on the basis of traditional two-sector model is briefly presented.