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Alexander Bogdanov’s system methodology from the perspective of the modern economic worldview
https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2023-3-24-39
Abstract
The doctrine of Alexander Bogdanov, the forerunner of the comprehensive system analysis developed later, is considered in the article from the point of view of the typology of the basic factors of the systemic development of the economy. The paradigm of space-time as an environment for the functioning of the economy in Bogdanov’s interpretation is analyzed in connection with the well-known concepts of space and time in physics, which allows us to take a fresh look at the relationship and roles of macro-, meso-, micro- and nanolevels in the economy. The representation of human economic activity as a combination of the processes of cognition and creation of spiritual and material values makes it possible to expand the concept of the connectedness of economic phenomena through causal (successive) and induction (mirror) dependencies. From this perspective, the reasons for the dominance of short-range and long-range effects, short- and long-term effects in different periods of the development of the Russian economy are considered.
About the Author
G. B. Kleiner
Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences;
Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
George B. Kleiner
Moscow
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Kleiner G.B. Alexander Bogdanov’s system methodology from the perspective of the modern economic worldview. Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2023;(3):24-39. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2023-3-24-39
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