The "Economic Strategies" journal

2024 #1 2024 Nuances of Sovereignty




2023: Strengthening the State Sovereignty and Sustainability of Russia’s Strategic Development in Conditions of Turbulence

DOI: 10.33917/es-1.193.2024.70-75

The article dwells on the changes in the Market Index of “Economic Strategies” (MIES) for eleven months of 2023.

Contribution of demand and supply indicators to MIES is assessed. Analysis of industrial production is carried out.

References:

1. Itogi goda s Vladimirom Putinym: pryamaya liniya s grazhdanami i bol’shaya press-konferentsiya s predstavitelyami SMI 14 dekabrya 2023 goda [Results of the Year with Vladimir Putin: Direct Line with Citizens and a Large Press Conference with Media Representatives on December 14, 2023]. Ofitsial’nyy sayt Prezidenta RF, available at: http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/7299

2. Sotsial’no-ekonomicheskoe polozhenie Rossii v yanvare — noyabre 2023 goda: Doklad [Socio-economic Situation in Russia in January — November 2023: Report]. Federal’naya sluzhba gosudarstvennoy statistiki, available at: https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/osn-11-2023.pdf

3. Frenkel’ A.A., Tikhomirov B.I., Surkov A.A. Itogi strategicheskogo razvitiya Rossii v yanvare — aprele 2023 goda — luchshe pessimistichnykh prognozov [Outcomes of Russia’s Strategic Development in January-April 2023 are Better than Pessimistic Forecasts]. Ekonomicheskie strategii, 2023, no 4, pp. 86–91, DOI: 10.33917/es-4.190.2023.86-91

4. Obrashchenie Prezidenta RF V.V. Putina v svyazi s predsedatel’stvom RF v Ob”edinenii BRIKS [Address by the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin in Connection with the Russian Federation’s Chairmanship of the BRICS Association]. Ofitsial’nyy sayt Prezidenta RF, available at: http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73202

5. Kontseptsiya predsedatel’stva RF v Sodruzhestve Nezavisimykh Gosudarstv v 2024 godu [Concept of the Russian Federation’s Chairmanship of the Commonwealth of Independent States in 2024]. Ofitsial’nyy sayt Prezidenta RF, available at: http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73203

Solidarism or Distributism? On Domestic Concept of the Solidary Economy

DOI: 10.33917/es-1.193.2024.76-81

Recently, the concept of society, which, according to the characteristics of its authors, is an alternative to both socialism and capitalism, has become quite actively discussed in Russia. Some of them do not consider it shameful to use the concept of “solidarism” to describe it, while others, on the contrary, actively distance themselves off it, preferring to call their doctrine a solidary society and economy.

No matter how surprising it may seem at first glance, the set of views expressed by modern domestic solidarists had foreign predecessors and modern supporters in the person of the so-called distributists.

References:

1. Koshkin V.I., Kretov S.I. Osnovy politicheskoy ekonomii solidarizma [Foundations of the Political Economy of Solidarism]. Moscow, LENAND 2017.

2. Belyaev S., Koshkin V. Mozhet li ekonomika byt’ solidarnoy? Chast’ 1 [Can the Economy be Solidary? Part 1]. Ekspert, 2020, no 14, pp. 66–71.

3. Belyaev S. Retsept ot bednosti: vvesti sobstvennost’ rossiyan na vse prirodnye resursy. Kak preodolet’ vopiyushchee neravenstvo [The Recipe for Poverty: Introduce Russian Ownership of all Natural Resources. How to Overcome Gross Inequality]. Moskovskiy komsomolets, 2021, 20 maya, available at: https://www.mk.ru/economics/2021/05/20/recept-ot-bednosti-vvesti-sobstvennost-rossiyan-na-vse-prirodnye-resursy.html

4. Koshkin V.I., Kretov S.I. Solidarnaya ekonomika: Put’ v budushchee [Solidarity Economy: The Way to the Future]. Moscow, LENAND, 2018.

5. Belyaev S., Koshkin V. Mozhet li ekonomika byt’ solidarnoy? Chast’ 2 [Can the Economy be Solidary? Part 2]. Ekspert, 2020, no 15–16, pp. 38–43.

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9. Bellami E. Cherez sto let: Sobr. soch.: V°2 t. [After a hundred years: Collected Works: In 2 vol.]. Vol. 1. Moscow, Knizhnyy mir, Knigovek, 2018.

10. Laudrain M. La vie Française du socialisme. Paris, La Maison du Livre Français, 1963.

Review of the book “Pragmatic Analytics”

DOI: 10.33917/es-1.193.2024.82-83

The monograph under review is practice-oriented, contains conceptual foundations of pragmatic analytics and successful practices of analytical activities types aimed at resolving problem situations in various fields of activity.

References:

1. Koshkin V.I., Kretov S.I. Osnovy politicheskoy ekonomii solidarizma [Foundations of the Political Economy of Solidarism]. Moscow, LENAND 2017.

2. Belyaev S., Koshkin V. Mozhet li ekonomika byt’ solidarnoy? Chast’ 1 [Can the Economy be Solidary? Part 1]. Ekspert, 2020, no 14, pp. 66–71.

3. Belyaev S. Retsept ot bednosti: vvesti sobstvennost’ rossiyan na vse prirodnye resursy. Kak preodolet’ vopiyushchee neravenstvo [The Recipe for Poverty: Introduce Russian Ownership of all Natural Resources. How to Overcome Gross Inequality]. Moskovskiy komsomolets, 2021, 20 maya, available at: https://www.mk.ru/economics/2021/05/20/recept-ot-bednosti-vvesti-sobstvennost-rossiyan-na-vse-prirodnye-resursy.html

4. Koshkin V.I., Kretov S.I. Solidarnaya ekonomika: Put’ v budushchee [Solidarity Economy: The Way to the Future]. Moscow, LENAND, 2018.

5. Belyaev S., Koshkin V. Mozhet li ekonomika byt’ solidarnoy? Chast’ 2 [Can the Economy be Solidary? Part 2]. Ekspert, 2020, no 15–16, pp. 38–43.

6. Belloc H. Essays of a Catholic. N.Y. Books for Librarian Press, 1967.

7. Chesterton G.K. The Outline of Sanity. Leipzig, Bernard Tauchnitz, 1927.

8. Duboin J. La Grande Relève des Hommes par la Machine. Paris, Editions nouvelles,1932.

9. Bellami E. Cherez sto let: Sobr. soch.: V°2 t. [After a hundred years: Collected Works: In 2 vol.]. Vol. 1. Moscow, Knizhnyy mir, Knigovek, 2018.

10. Laudrain M. La vie Française du socialisme. Paris, La Maison du Livre Français, 1963.

Global Reset of Russia’s Sociocultural Trend: from “Classical” to “New” Eurasianism

DOI: 10.33917/es-1.193.2024.86-89

The article identifies dynamics of the Eurasian concept, which is considered as the basic strategy for the positive development of Russia’s foreseeable future. The author shows that over the last century the national Eurasian model has been transformed in the process of actual socio-economic and political-ideological attitudes. Within classical eurasianism Russia is viewed as a special geographical and socio-cultural civilization that combines Western (Western European) and Eastern (Asian) stereotypes.

It is proved that in the process of the USSR development and formation of the “new” Russia, the theory of eurasianism with a Western European trend was being implemented. Since the second decade of the 21st century, in order to overcome the consequences of anti-Russian sanctions, the Russian Federation has been stimulating a national strategy of Eurasianism with an Eastern (Asian) orientation. However, by the middle of the 21st century in implementing the conceptual model of Eurasianism Russia will return, as suggested in the article, to a classical strategy based on a balance of Westernization and Orientalist ideas.

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2. Chumakov A.N. “Filosofskiy parokhod”. 100 let bez pokayaniya [“The Philosophical Ship”. 100 years without Repentance]. Monografiya. Moscow, Prospekt, 2022, 456 p.

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Human Self-Sufficiency as the Basis for Self-Sufficiency of Socio-Economic Systems and a Multipolar World

DOI: 10.33917/es-1.193.2024.93-99

The article dwells on relationship between the self-sufficiency of citizens and the self-sufficiency of socio-economic systems (hereinafter referred to as SES) at any level – from a company to a municipality, region and the state. It is shown that equal, self-sufficient states constitute the basis of a multipolar world. On the example of different countries, in particular the USA, it is shown that lack of self-sufficiency of citizens causes large external debt, the risk of reducing self-sufficiency of the state and, as a consequence, its destruction. Through the prism of self-sufficiency of citizens, the author shows the logical result to which Russian Federation is moving and to which it will arrive if it doesn’t change its monetary policy.

Based on her work experience as an expert, the author focuses on consciousness as an economic-cybernetic category and selfsufficiency as a reproductive (economic) function built into human nature to realize human potential.

References:

1. Bychkova N.Yu. Soznanie kak ekonomicheskaya kategoriya [Consciousness as an Economic Category]. Innovatsii i investitsii, 2022, no 12, pp. 22–29, DOI: 10.24412/2307-180X-2022-12-22-29

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3. Bychkova N.Yu. Evolyutsiya pravosoznaniya cheloveka. Smena paradigmy [Evolution of Human Legal Awareness. Paradigm Shift]. Ekonomika i parvo, 2022, no 6, pp. 78–85, DOI 10.37882/2223–2974.2022.06.04

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The Problem of Marriage Stability in Modern Russia: Theological and Sociological Analysis

DOI: 10.33917/es-1.193.2024.100-107

The article examines the problem of sustainability of marriage unions in modern Russia. The author reviews the opinions of Orthodox theologians and sociologists on the causes of this phenomenon and identifies two main concepts: the crisis concept and the progressive one. It is argued that the common underlying cause of family destabilization is weakening of faith in the Triune God, manifested in selfishness, fornication, distorted ideas about gender equality, disorderly parental intervention and excessive concern with economic issues. As a conclusion, it is proposed to further develop Orthodoxy’s efforts to affirm the unsurpassed valu of marriage according to “once for a lifetime” formula and to reveal its deep relationship with the teaching of the Church.

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