Russian Abstract: Активизация движения за "базовый доход" рассматривается в контексте теории общественного выбора как рациональная программа продвижения к власти...

A complexity of a pension reform realization in a country with high level of intergenerational altruism is considered as a reason of a failure of the pension reform in Russia. Differences between intergenerational altruism levels in Russia and more modernized western countries are discussed....

The paper covers the significance of Lingua franca not only as a language of intercultural communications, but also as a necessary component of the adequate satisfaction of fundamental human needs and of the prevention of socio-economic pathologies. It is stressed in the paper that the...

The high level of uncertainty in the development of the Russian economy at the current stage is predetermined by the negative impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the growth of sanctions restrictions. The socio-economic consequences of these factors continue to constrain the development of all...

This paper provides a review of part of the literature on inequality and social welfare, with a special focus on the Gini index. The paper first presents the extended Gini index used for measuring inequality, as well as the source decomposition of the Gini used to analyze how changes in income...