Economics of Science

Abstract

The study is aimed at identifying the essential drivers, conditions and factors of harmonious scientific and technological development of the economy. The goal is to deepen the concept of moral economics of the academician D. S. Lvov by substantiating the regulatory function of morality and the principles derived from it in the interactions of subjects of the socio-economic system to develop the economy through the scientific and technological way. The results and conclusions from the works of Academician D.S. Lvov are used, as well as the methodology of system analysis and synthesis of the economy, the related postulates of the system economic theory and system economic paradigm of Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences G. B. Kleiner. With the example of the tetrad model, it is shown how the failure of society to receive the resources needed to meet human physical, intellectual, and spiritual needs causes, through the contour of recursive linkages, the failure of as itself as other sectors to receive the resources all they need to implement functions in the system. By studying the connections and interactions between the sectors of the macro-system through the view of the moral economy concept, the author’s hypothesis is confirmed that morality, a basic attribute of the social life of society, is a regulator in the mechanism of feedback between the social sector and the economy, society and the state, and on this basis serves the self-organization and self-development of the macro-system. Such results clarify the principle of action of the fundamental postulate of the theory of moral economy of D. S. Lvov about the leading role of society in the macro-system, in the opposite the policy of the reforms as they have been carried out. The conclusions include the imperative of a system approach to human development, an emphasis on humanitarian aspects in solving the problems of technological sovereignty.