Экономическая трансформация в современном мире (на английском языке) (курс для программы магистратуры "Фундаментальная экономика: теория и математические методы")учебный курс
Описание:АННОТАЦИЯ: Differentia specifica of the course are interconnected with accent on the analysis of economic (1) system in (2) their transformation. Consequently, main goal of the course is to develop knowledge and analytical potential of the students in specific theoretical spaces, covering problems of economic transformations, both internal and external, in the interconnection with transformations of technologies, institutions, social and cultural life. Geo-economic and geopolitical aspects are also included in the analysis. Among key questions of transformations authors will teach theory of genesis of knowledge-based economy and consequent transformations of market, money, capital and property relations. Another important chapter of the course – counter-points of transformation of Russian economy during last 100 years
For the most part, the course focuses on revealing the new quality now assumed by commodities, money and capital within the global economy as the main categories of modern capitalist economic system.
The course demonstrates the new qualities acquired by value, use-value, price and commodity fetishism within this new market, while exploring the contradictions of new non-limited resources (such as knowledge) and the commodity form of their existence. Money is now a virtual product of fictitious financial capital, possessing a new nature, contradictions and functions, all of which are shown in the course. This analysis of the new nature of money helps to reveal the essence of so-called financialization. In the twenty-first century context the exploitation includes the ‘classic’ extraction of surplus value from industrial workers combined with internal corporate redistribution of income by ‘insiders’; international exploitation; and the exploitation of creative labour through the expropriation of intellectual rent. Further, modern capital imposes its hegemony not only on labour, but also on free time, and subjugates to itself not only the labour power of the human individual, but also his or her personality (human and social ‘capital’ are thus irrational forms of the development of the personality and of solidarity).
The course makes it possible to find out the material basis of these transformations. To understand this material basis the shifts from industrial to postindustrial economy and the most modern trend of re-industrialization are analyzed in the course.