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Approaches to enhance the effectiveness of the instruments to reduce cross-border pollution

TERRA ECONOMICUS, , Vol. 11 (no. 1.3),
p. 47-51

Manufacturing sector – the main source of pollution of the environment (including cross-border). Implement the greening of industrial sphere allows a set of instruments for regulating pollution. The main difficulty of solving it is to define a clear, economically sound decision-making framework that will promote coordination of interests of the various parties involved in the regulation of cross-borderpollution. The priority to reduce cross-border pollution is to develop strategies to reduce the negative impact on the environment for each of the participating countries a specific area of cross-border pollution, and improving regulatory tools transboundary pollution.

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Features of formation an organization innovative potential

TERRA ECONOMICUS, , Vol. 11 (no. 1.3),
p. 44-46

In article basic definitions are given, and also the interrelation of the concepts «information resources» and «innovative potential» of aspect of consideration of sources and driving forces of innovations is reasoned. As a result of research the conclusion that between innovative activity and information resources exist close interrelation is drawn. which locates following circumstances: emergence of innovations results from intellectual activity of the person that treats and information resource; the most productive and valuable part of innovations – basic – is based now, first of all, on achievements which, in turn, are a source of the major part of information resource; interactive and nonlinear models of innovative process include the elements acting as a source of innovative ideas; information resource represents an important component of innovative capacity of the organization. The considered concepts of driving forces of innovative process include knowledge, information and information resource as the essential precondition or innovative activity, updating of a role of the last assumes need of implementation of the continuous analysis of factors of development, for the purpose of elimination of possible deviations from a target trajectory.

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The evolution of the principles and directions of reform of the energy sector in the post-reform period

TERRA ECONOMICUS, , Vol. 11 (no. 1.3),
p. 40-43

In article being offered author’s approach to modernization of the principles and the direction of reforming of the power branch, considering positive and negative consequences of the previous stages of reforms.

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Evolution of enterprise’s goal-oriented marketing activity towards the reinforcement of social-oriented priorities

TERRA ECONOMICUS, , Vol. 11 (no. 1.3),
p. 35-39

Paper details on theoretical approaches towards the genesis of social essence of marketing, presented within the works of foreign economists-marketers. Author elaborated typology of main stages of socially-oriented marketing. A ray of objective tendencies developed within the economy which stimulated enterprise’s goal-oriented marketing activity aimed at social-oriented priorities have been identified. Author’s definition of social-oriented marketing has been suggested.

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The problem of estimation of the multiplicative effects from investment in industry

TERRA ECONOMICUS, , Vol. 11 (no. 1.3),
p. 28-34

In this paper, based on the construction of models with distributed lags evaluated multiplicative effects of investments in various sectors of Russian industry and draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the investment process from the point of view of creating synergies and positive feedbacks in the economic system. The economic slowdown in the global crisis and persisting in the economy of the advanced countries of the world, the impetus to rethink the global scientific community, many mainstream economics postulates that dominated neoliberal public consciousness over the past decades. This is, first of all, touched popular in the early 2000s, the concept of post-industrial society, the formation and development of which was to «answer» to the rapid development of the intangible economy in the richest countries in the world that produces intangible benefits - information, knowledge, and even the «impressions», «meaning», etc. However, as practice shows, the 'knowledge economy' is currently not self-sufficient, and relies on industrial and technological might of the industrialized regions of the world. The greatest effect on the development of innovation occurs where there are opportunities for commercial development of innovations. Offered tools to improve the state's industrial policies aimed at monitoring the effectiveness of investments. Without this, all efforts to artificially stimulate innovative activity, the infinite perfection of methods and approaches to innovation processes and the creation of new institutions to support innovation, hampered by lack of demand for immunity and low-tech industries with a high proportion of low-skilled cheap human labor to technical newest, requiring for their development of significant volumes of high-risk investments.

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Competitive dynamics of the Russian grocery retailing

TERRA ECONOMICUS, , Vol. 11 (no. 1.3),
p. 24-27

The paper examines the main stages of development of the Russian food retailing from 1990 to the present time. The main competitive features of each stage, revealed the specificity of competition in the Russian market retailers in the grocery sector, the sources of competitive advantage, the dynamics of the emergence of new retail formats, government regulation of trading activities. Contradictions and tendencies of development are identified in the Russian food retailing.

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The formation and management of industrial clusters

TERRA ECONOMICUS, , Vol. 11 (no. 1.3),
p. 19-23

The paper discusses methods for creating industrial clusters based on the assessment of the main approaches to the formation and development of the social, economic strategy in the region. Analysis of competitive advantage.

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World experience in creating effective mechanisms of interaction between government and business in present conditions

TERRA ECONOMICUS, , Vol. 11 (no. 1.3),
p. 14-18

At the present stage of development of society many countries, regardless of level of economic development and a market situation, appeal to need of establishment of public-private partnership. First of all, cooperation arises in those spheres for which the government traditionally bears responsibility are public objects (transport, municipal, social infrastructure, housing and communal services, etc.). Rapid development of diverse forms of the public-private partnership (PPP) in all regions of the world, their wide circulation in the most different branches of economy allow to treat this form of interaction of the state and business as characteristic feature of modern economy. The developing partnership, unlike the traditional administrative relations, creates the relations of property and methods of control over it. The PPP projects represent a special configuration of interests and interactions of partners.

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Principles and problems of Friedrich August von Hayek′s evolutionary approach

TERRA ECONOMICUS, , Vol. 11 (no. 1.3),
p. 9-13

The paper is devoted to Friedrich August von Hayek s theory of cultural evolution. This article discusses the similarities and differences between biological and cultural (social) evolution. The author describes the differences between Lamarckism and Darwinism on the understanding of the causes of evolution, and on this basis author considers the question: Hayek′s theory of cultural evolution is basically Darwinian or Lamarckian? Main problems with theory of cultural evolution - application of the controversial group selection theory and negation of laws of evolution - have been analyzed. Differences between group selection in accordance with the Hayek′s opinion and group selection in biology have been revealed. Hayek′s definition of laws of evolution has been clarified. Consequences of attempts at radical deliberate intervention in the course of social evolution have been specified.

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Contemporary problems of the financial system regulation

TERRA ECONOMICUS, , Vol. 11 (no. 1.3),
p. 5-8

This article examines the changing role of the banking sector in the mechanism of regulation of the financial system crisis and the growing importance of the regulatory function of the securities market.

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