The author analyzes high-technology modernization in terms of the theory of long waves and successive technological configurations. He argues that Russia has certain comparative advantages in high-technology competition, and considers the various strategies that Russia might adopt.

The author, following the Austrian school, analyzes the economic effects of credit expansion and fractional reserve banking and their role in generating cyclical crises.

The author argues that mechanisms of governance need to be changed in order to provide more effective feedback from ordinary citizens.

The article considers the problems and tasks of Russian innovation strategy. The author points out that during the period of rapid economic growth, Russia did not manage to proceed from the resource stage to the investment stage. The author also states that the effective innovation policy should...

The article describes the impact of the current crisis on the lease industry in Russia and gives an estimation of lease market volatility. The lease effect on macroeconomic proportions is analyzed by calculating the lease capacity of investment and gross domestic product.

The article identifies five basic strategic directions of innovation break-through and the economic modernization of Russia: energy efficiency and energy savings, nuclear technologies, space technologies, medical technologies, and strategic information technologies.

The successful functioning of the oil industry requires an efficient service sector capable of providing a wide range of services, from geological exploration to equipment production. In Russia, this sector is just being established, and a search is under way for a structure that will be...

The article is devoted to creating a model of the Russian Federation pension system based on intersectoral calculations. Possible versions of long-term changes in key parameters of the pension system are examined based on a cycle of scenario calculations.

We are so accustomed to the stable Soviet pension system that any deviations from it are painful. However, for example, there are no pensions in China, which is developing rapidly, and the pension age is being raised in France and Estonia. Meanwhile, other ways of guaranteeing a decent old age...