The article highlights the results of the theoretical modeling of the economy within the institutional matrices theory framework. The economy is modeled as evolutionary developing structure of interacted market and redistributive institutions. If branches with diminishing returns prevail in the...

The main idea of the paper is to explain the essence of transformation of the Russian economy on the basis of the new institutional matrices theory developed by the author. The paper focuses on the objective process of self-organization of socioeconomic structure on the given stage of Russia"s...

Neither criticising Western social theory nor constructing an alternative kind of social theory is currently being thought of as a creative and fruitful method for social theorizing around the world today. The development of a new theoretical framework for understanding and explaining social...

We compare banking in economic systems of different type, namely X-type (redistributive economy) and Y-type (market economy). In an X-type economic system banking has a peculiar institutional design and is organized “top-down”, whereas in a Y-type market economy we see a “bottom-up...

The objective of the paper is to define the trajectory of economic institutional reforms in Russia as a framework of S&T policies. The methodology of this research is based upon the institutional matrices theory (Кирдина, 2001; Kirdina, 2003). The hypothesis claims that the “institutional...

The objective of the paper is to analyze the results of XVII World Congress of Sociology (Gothenburg, Sweden) in July 2010. The necessity to reconstruct the key-sociological paradigm with its western-centric modality is claimed. Parallels with the situation in modern economic theory are emphasized.

This article represents a paper for the 5th International Symposium on Evolutionary Economics “Economic Transformation and Evolutionary Theory of J. Schumpeter” (Pushchino, Moscow region, Russia, 25-27 September, 2003). There is shown, that the comparison of two well-known works of Josef...