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According to many scientists in the field of economy in Russia today urgent problem of the gap between savings and accumulation processes. Great interest attaches to the process of savings income, which serves as a source of domestic resources for development of the national economy, if provided by the transformation of savings into productive capital. This article discusses the prospects for growth and savings rates rate of accumulation in the current of financial instability in the Russian Federation. In additio...

Both state authorities and the society are in need of performance analysis of public administration. This paper analyzes existing public administration estimation techniques used by international agencies and individual countries. This paper also quantifies an effectiveness of public administration in Russia and interprets the results.

This paper demonstrates inconsistency of GDP per capita as indicator of living standards in Russia. It statistically estimates the living standards of three main age groups by calculating a ratio of income per capita to respective cost of living. Author made a conclusion regarding the governmental financial assistance for birth parents.

This paper aims to investigate how the optimal relationships between crops and chemicals can be determined. In order to answer this question, a piece of research was carried out on the statistical methods. The focus is on the variant method as little research has been conducted on different combination between factor and crop. As a support to establish the optimal link between crops and chemicals indicators of marginalism such as marginal production, marginal cost and expenditure, elasticity, marginal income, marg...

The purpose of this paper is to present the factors of organisational culture in learning organizations for providing of effective flow of competitive intelligence (CI) process. Through engagement into the cultural transformation process of the whole system, the steering group is enabled to create precisely the culture required for providing efficient CI management in the organisation. The study was performed in two stages. At the first stage, research was undertaken in the form of in-depth interview about the tre...

The latest researches consider positive energy buildings as being a new sustainable pathway for reaching a green society. This implies a more secure future, with low resource consumption, zero energy losses, minimization of greenhouse gas emissions and of biodiversity losses. A way to achieve this desideratum is by investing in restoration and new constructions considering the economic, social and environmental impacts. This paper focuses on investigating the new trends in construction and building sector from the...

Consequences of resent economic crises and economic resilience of administrative-territorial units of Russia are considered. We define resilience as the ability of a regional economy to withstand, absorb or overcome internal or external economic shock. We have chosen to use the gross regional product, employment rate and percent of population with incomes lower then living wage as primary indicators of resilience. All territories are divided into four types in accordance with their ability to withstand shock or re...

Competition law prohibits all types of anti-competitive agreements, both express agreements and other arrangements identified as “cartels” or “concerted practices”. The evidence used for proving an agreement may be classified in two categories: direct and circumstantial proofs. When cartel cases cannot be built on the basis of direct evidence, courts require additional proofs to demonstrate its existence, including proofs of communication between competitors and economic evidence, the latter being represen...

In this paper the authors try to present the method PROMETHEE II (Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation), which they use for comparing the 27 European countries that are in the European Union. Authors focus on five chosen macroeconomic indicators: growth of GDP, unemployment, Harmonized Index of Customer Prices, expenditure on research and development, annual earnings. Using PROMETHEE II and the data of chosen indicators the authors create an absolute range of countries in the time of ec...

Quality of life became a priority for researchers from many study areas. Researches realized in the last few years regarding the quality of life focused mainly on urban reality. The article purposes to offer a short review of the literature concerning quality of life and urban development, to study the connection between this terms and also important statistics from Romania. A survey based on five main themes was conducted with the aim to create an image of quality of life in each quarter of Bucharest. Implication...

Knowledge society has been identified by Academician Blazej as one of the pillars of the 21st century. Explicit knowledge increases and its use in terms of productivity should be meaningful. On the other hand, there there must be no mistake, in which bizarre opinions are announced, such as the inability to set general education or inability of any discipline to be integrated into education. We also believe that cognition, knowledge and natural desire of a man to know are the alpha and omega of knowledge society.Th...

The paper deals with the issue of a systemic approach to strategic management in the period of the transformation of information-based to knowledge-based society, where one of the strategic factors in the process is the use and development of intellectual capital. Described in the first part is the main contexts of the given issue, and then there is a design of a general model of the systemic approach to the development of a knowledge-based society.

This article represents an attempt to reconstruct the history of scientific and educational community in Tomsk throughout two decades (1920-1930s) on the basis of both published and unpublished sources. For the first time authors have formulated the notion of crisis of university lecturers' corporate identity influenced by shaping of the Soviet state based on regional example. Factors of formation and manifestation of scientific and educational community corporate identity have been discerned and analyzed. Special...

This article represents an attempt to reconstruct the history of the development of science in mid 1940s- mid 1950s on the basis of both published and unpublished sources focusing on the example of Tomsk scientific and educational complex. Processes concerned with demilitarization of science after the Great Patriotic War are discerned and analyzed, main fields of research and the most prominent results produces within them are characterized. Cold war that began in 1946 deeply influenced the transformation of resea...

Heidegger, responding to the various issues that are existential for the human beings, also addresses to the philosophy of religion. Our paper is a brief assessment of Heidegger's text Phenomenology and Theology. We believe that Heidegger before rebounding relatively adequately characterized the relationship between philosophy and theology as disciplines of clear cognition and knowledge. He seeks to describe the relationship between philosophy and theology in original way, his solution retains the hallmark of orig...

The article is devoted to the attitude of university professors of the Russian Empire to the student movement in the late XIX – early XX century. The powerful surge of student protest movement took place at the turn of the centuries. The movement, changing the content, became more politicized and, no doubt, it was a harbinger of the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. The activation of the student movement caused a controversy reaction of Russian society including the academic environment. Many professors were in a qu...

The societies in the South-East European area are dominated by relations that have acquired specific tones: Sacred and secular, orality and writing, rural and urban, tradition and modernity. The deciphering of the respective tones can be realized based on the analysis of the mentality flow, mentalities being neither just “prisons of long duration” in the sense of forces preventing progress over long periods of time (Fernand Braudel), nor just a “philosophical way” of approaching the perceptible reality (Ro...

Article studies the influence of corporate ethics of a state-owned company on the stability of its operations, management and growth of business. The authors discuss the cost-based approach to the formation of corporate culture and values. As a result of research, authors found that the process of value creation includes business planning, corporate law, a system of tangible and intangible compensation, and corporate culture (conduct and ethics).