Author is considering the role of state in the contemporary economy from the point of view of Marxist methodology that clarifies presentation of the points of disagreements which take place among scholars, and, also uses the potential of foreseeing in Marxism. In the paper the thesis is stated that contemporary state is focused on the realization of three main types of interests: the state apparatus (bureaucracy), the ruling class (capital) and society as a whole. The contradictions between these groups of interests are investigated and the different already realized variants of compromise between them are considered, as well as other possible variants of such a compromise. The positions of different schools and currents of economic thought are analyzed from the point of their orientation predominantly to this or that interests, protection and realization of which are included in the functions of the state. The main points of disputes on these questions are marked. On the basis of the highlighting the main interests being defended by state the idea of three forms of state is formulated: state-bureaucrat, statecapital and state-society. Author treats the development of economic functions of a state in the conditions of late capitalism as transformation of state itself into the functioning capitalist. From the point of view of historical development of the state functions, the probable shifts in these functions are treated as response to the challenges connected with the evolution of modern economy. For instance, the usage of newly formed post-market (or transitory to post-market) relations in the economic functions of state is investigated. These transitory post-market relations are increasing the potential possibilities to implement the state function of social interests’ representative. As one of the probable variants of possible evolution of contemporary state and the reasons for the shift into the liberal-conservative direction are analyzed, as well as the workable alternative for this shift.

In this paper the different positions concerning the economic role of state are considering. Three main groups of views which taken place in Russia, are highlighting: liberals, statists and lefts. This analysis is providing on the basis of highlighting by Alexandr Buzgalin three main forms of state from the point of view of its economic functions: statebureaucrat, state-capital and state-society. The contradictory nature of the combination of these forms of state is demonstrating. Although the sides in the discussions, as a rule, don’t identifying themselves with one of these forms, the defense of one of this or that form became the main border between the positions of the sides. In the dependence of this the answer on the question of the nature of state is made. The key disagreements on the main questions of economic development, economic relations and institutions between the participants of discussions on economic functions of state are formulating. As a conclusion the view on the prospects of evolution of state in connection with the formation of the transitory post-market relations and on the interaction of state and society in this process is representing. The role of democratic institutions of civil society in this process is stressed. This attitude is presenting as an alternative to the liberal-conservative and statist trend.

The authors examine the mathematical modeling of methods for the coordination of collective action in the self-organization and self-governance mode. It is assumed that members of the collective create aggregate income whose value grows, as each member invests more effort. The goal pursued by each member of the collective is to maximize personal gains. As we established in the first part of the study, the lack of universal interpersonal trust prevents members of a uniform (unstructured) collective from overcoming a non-effective, Nash equilibrium outcome. Alternative options for structuring the collective were considered, such as creating small groups (coalitions) of agents sharing mutual trust within each group. The strategy of such coalition, aimed at maximizing coalitional gains rather than personal, leads to greater investment of effort by each coalition member, which in turn produces greater aggregate gains for the entire collective. We have shown that in order to secure stability of a coalition structure, first, stimuli for each coalition member are needed such that imply redistribution of quasi-rent to their benefit, and second, control must be exercised on the efforts of the agents. As models demonstrate, members of the collective left outside coalitions or forming small coalitions with a low share taken together (in aggregate) gains, have weaker stimuli for investment. The potential of increasing such stimuli and thereby increasing aggregate gains may be furnished by another, stronger hierarchic-shaped structure – provided transactional costs are sufficiently low. In order to realize this potential, entitlements to residual income must be concentrated in the hands of a single largest coalition or a number of largest coalitions, while banning all other members of the collective from receiving such income. The income of each agent is defined by the terms of the stimulating contract. We have proposed a general design of such a stimulating contract, creating all prerequisites for achieving equilibrium outcome, with Pareto-dominates equilibrium outcomes for other collective structuring options.

The article on the basis of extrapolation of system laws of management of social and economic development illustrates the system reason of the Cobra effect, that is, a situation where, despite the rather attractive goals that managers formulate, the result of the activities of subordinates is opposite to what was intended. The main problem of management is the development of a system of indicators, in which, working on the indicator, employees would change the state in the right direction. The reason for the Cobra effect is the manifestation of systemic patterns of socio-economic development. The main system regularity is the desire of the system for stability and self-preservation. This state of the system is achieved using the least energy-consuming way. It is shown that any worker, realizing system regularities, aspires to stability and self-preservation. Therefore, the employee is always forced to work for achieving the indicator. The article analyzes the manifestation of these laws at the level of enterprises and state. When managers understand these patterns explicitly or covertly, changes in the economic system are moving in the right direction. It is shown that the existing system of target indicators used as indicators to assess the effectiveness of management does not meet the goals and objectives of socio-economic development. At the meso- and macrolevel, absolute, volumetric indicators, such as gross national product and others, reduce the range of benefits to the population. The article defines the vector of change in the system of indicators for assessing the effectiveness of management at the regional and state levels, based on the fact that the key element is the family. At the same time, the targets should be indicators to assess the availability of benefits for households.

The article presents the rationale for the investment activity of the state, directly aimed at the realization of the society’s interests, as well as for the reform activities, the task of which is to modernize the institutional environment in order to maximally harmonize the interests of society and economic agents. Within the framework of the first direction, an original approach and a corresponding method of determining the volume of public investment to producers of patronized goods in the humanitarian sector are proposed, based on an assessment of the necessary compensation of the deficit in their income, arising as a result of objective economic patterns and social norms, established by the state. Within the framework of the second direction the need for institutional changes is discussed, which pushes the state to reform existing institutions in order to generate additional motivation for expanding the production of patronized goods, as a result of the maximum possible convergence of interests of economic agents and society as a whole. It is about creating economic incentives and generally favorable conditions for attracting to the humanitarian sector, including non-governmental non-profit organizations, as well as commercial organizations that have their own interests, sometimes far from the public goals of increasing human capital. As a general vector of institutional modernization of the conditions of cultural, educational and scientific activities, it was recommended to use institutions of individual budget assignments, tax benefits, marked taxes and endowment funds. The final part of the research is devoted to analyzing the consequences of the “flaw in public choice” – the proclamation of a growing number of journal publications and the peculiarities of institutional modernization of science, including the “journal reform”, as a public interest. It was recommended to develop a Federal program of state support to the scientific journals, ensuring their efficient operation, including paying fees to authors and reviewers, as well as allocating targeted subsidies to university and academic research libraries to pay for subscriptions to major scientific journals. 

The article is devoted to the actual issue – institutional analysis of initiative budgeting and territorial public selfgovernment, as well as the possibility of their integration. Over the past few years, a system of civil participation in budget decisions has been built in Russia, the regulatory framework of practices has been created, thousands of employees of state and local government bodies have been trained, project centers have appeared for ensuring development of initiative budgeting. Citizen participation in budget decisions can significantly accelerate the development of the lower level of local government. Initiative budgeting is an innovative instrument of public finance and at the same time a social technology allowing for the real involvement of citizens in the issues of state and municipal governance. Initiative budgeting development programs make it possible to transfer financing of projects aimed at solving local issues with the participation of citizens onto a systemic basis. The results and materials of this study can serve a foundation for theoretical understanding of the institutional development of public finances at the regional and local levels. At the same time, this practical area that was intensively developing in recent years requires deep institutional analysis.

The paper deals with the problems of reforming the organization of the production of high-tech products in Russia. A comparative analysis of the state and significance of these industries in the economies of developed countries and Russia shows the need for reforming the structural organization of production. On the example of the aviation industry, an analysis of the improvement of industrial production was carried out. Evaluation of the effectiveness of relevant measures shows that they contribute to the conservation of closed obsolete business-production models, monopolization of the final integrator in accessing and using investments, low labor productivity and outflow of personnel, lack of effective interaction of the scientific and technological sector with domestic academic university science. This impedes the formation of the competencies necessary to carry out a technological breakthrough and increase the competitiveness of the industry in the global market.The paper presents a model of vertical integration of the technological chain of value added reproduction in the form of network organizational structures of suppliers of modules, units and nodes of the final complex technology based on domestic manufacturers. The paper discusses the benefits of the heliocentric organization of the production of the final complex technology, the cluster organization of the supply of intermediate products (modules, units, nodes). It is shown that the separation of the functions of the final integrator contributes to the distribution of risks along the DVCS. At the same time, the attention of the final integrator is concentrated on the development of the final complex products, the organization of the supplier system and after-sales service. The cluster organization of intermediate production opens up the possibility of its diversification and direct access to investment flows, which stimulates the development of production. The authors have developed mechanisms for ensuring the competence of manufacturers to their functional purposes in the central air traffic control system and the organization of a network management system.

The Russian economy needs a qualitative leap in the rate of economic development. The peculiarity of Russia development is the functioning of municipalities and entire regions with a single industry specialization of the economy. In the context of macroeconomic instability, the above-mentioned territories need preventive support. The instrument of such support since 2015 has been the territories of advanced social and economic development, initially created in the Far East, and since 2016 in single-industry towns. Purpose of the research is to identify and analyze the risk phenomenon of deviations from the goal of socio-economic development of territorial economic entities that have received the status of TASED resident. The city of Naberezhnye Chelny was chosen as the object of study as the first monoterritory with the status of TASED. The objectives of the research work are to detail the essential characteristics of TASED their actualization in the context of the identified problems. The relevance of creating TASED in cities with a single industry economy is determined, the importance of TASED as a zone of favorable economic activity and the emergence of growth points, as well as an institution for the development of the economy of territorial entities, is emphasized. The advantages of TASED as a certain type of territorial formations for residents of TASED are substantiated, and, on the other hand, possible risk factors of deviations from the development goal of TASED are identified and the directions of the search for anti-risk management decisions are identified. In the process of writing, general scientific methods of theoretical and empirical knowledge were used: the method of scientific abstraction, the method of analogies, the logical method, methods of analysis and synthesis, the method of formalization, the method of classification, system, statistical, structural, functional, economic analysis.

The article considers the concept of “digital economy” and its relationship with the concept of “knowledge economy”. It is concluded that the digital economy is officially considered the previous stage before the development of the knowledge society (knowledge economy). A review of the opinions of specialists from different fields of knowledge about the positive and negative effects, as well as the possible risks of the development of the digital economy, is presented. It is proved that despite the objectiveness of the process of moving towards the information society, and further towards the knowledge society, humanity must make efforts that this path will not be destructive for its previous achievements in various fields. From the perspective of system economic theory, an analysis of the system effects and risks of the development of the digital economy in Russia is made. For this purpose, an assessment of the system balance of the distribution of funds in the national project “National Program “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation” is performed. The results of federal projects are classified by system types and the system balance indices are calculated for assessment the financing volumes of the four basic types of economic systems (object, environment, process, and project). The obtained values of the indices of system balance of distribution of funds of the national project “National Program “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation” showed the presence of significant imbalances in the volume of financing between systems of various types. It was revealed that priority support was given to the systems of environment and process types responsible for the development of infrastructure and protocols for collecting, processing, storing and disseminating data. This circumstance should be taken into account in the formation of the country’s economic policy since both the economic systems of the four basic types and the conditions and factors of economic growth should develop proportionally. Application of the presented approach to the development of the digital economy in Russia will make it possible to efficiently distribute financial resources between subsystems, to avoid both duplication of functions by systems of various levels and excessive strengthening or weakening of one or several types of systems.

The indicators that determine the change in the macroeconomic situation in the economy of Azerbaijan in 2010–2017, as well as the conditions for increasing the effectiveness of state intervention in solving economic problems are analyzed. It is noted that it is not the size of the public sector that becomes important, but its qualitative component (management and redistribution of resources and revenues, coordination of government intervention in economic relations). The main reasons limiting economic growth are identified, and the mechanisms for overcoming them are disclosed, since economic growth is of particular importance in the transformational period of state development. It substantiates the assertion that the forms and methods of state regulation should be the result of a reasonable combination of the private and public sectors of the economy to more effectively achieve the goal of economic development of the country and increase the welfare of the population. To this end, it is advisable to limit the actions of market forces and find a rational ratio of market and government measures that stimulate economic growth and development.
It is shown that in the near future the development of the economy of Azerbaijan should be focused on the transition to the integration of various models of economic transformation; at the same time, “attraction of investments” should be carried out by methods of stimulating consumption, and the concept of a socially oriented economy, which the state also implements, should prevail, thereby ensuring social protection of the population and at the same time developing market relations. Disproportions in regional and sectoral development are also noted, which are the result of an ineffective distribution of goods produced, inadequate investment in human capital, a low level of coordination and stimulation of economic growth and development.

In the monograph of Professor A. M. Starostin the notions “philosophical novations” and “research philosophy” was introduced and approved. The author divides the whole array of philosophic research into fundamental and applied – the sphere of philosophical novations. Fundamental and philosophic investigations are directed to the study of the problems of objective reality, thinking, cognition, the truth, freedom and other basic categories. The sphere of fundamental research is slowly changing and it’s development is marked by the outstanding names (Platon, Descartes, Kant, Schopenhauer, Heidegger etc.). As to the sphere of the philosophic innovations, its emergence and development are connected with application of methods of philosophical reflection to the realization of interdisciplinary problems of science, development of political, religious, artistic, ethical trends, which can't be researched only with the help of their own methods. The sphere of philosophic novations develops dynamically and according to its own scales and is twice larger than the sphere of fundamental philosophy.
In his monography the author, from the viewpoint of his treating of fundamental and innovative projection of the philosophic knowledge and philosophic methods, analyses contemporary problems of politics, education, culture, science.

The article is devoted to review of the fifth St. Petersburg International Economic Congress that was held on April 3, 2019. The topical issues of modern technological transformations, the economic development of Russia and a number of other subjects were discussed in the Congress. Participants have proposed not only new theoretical ideas, but also concrete measures of economic policy that can be implemented in practice.