Author:
Radhika Desai, University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada)
Abstract:
The author elaborates on the theoretical potential and practical relevance of the concepts of noonomy (S.D. Bodrunov) and geopolitical economy (R. Desai), which can be considered not only as related phenomena, having common points of intersection with the methodology of classical scientific political economy (K. Marx), as well as modern Marxist trends and a number of other directions of economic thought alternative to the market neoclassical economy, the concept of national innovation systems (K. Freeman), the concept of mental economy and mental products based on creativity (A. Freeman), but also scientifically substantiated platforms capable of offering a fundamentally new (non-capitalist in content and form) model of organization of social and economic life. The latter is especially relevant in light of the fact that neoclassical economic theory, due to a number of objective reasons (financialization, deindustrialization, socio- economic inequality, stagnation, economic crises, etc.) is unable to adequately meet the requirements of the time at present. The author identifies four main stages of the metamorphoses of the market economy, which has recently continued its transformational movement following the order of "neoliberalism - globalization - US empire - pseudo-civil neoliberalism". The author introduces the category "pseudo-civil neoliberalism" into scientific circulation to explain the nature of the change in the context of neoliberalism in the current international agenda. A warning is made that all those who thought they had already witnessed the pinnacle of hypocrisy of neoliberalism will witness its conquest of new heights.
Keywords: classical political economy, noonomy, geopolitical economy, material production, contradictions of neoclassical economy, crisis of market and capital, metamorphoses of neoliberalism, pseudo-civic neoliberalism
For citation: Desai R. (2024). Geopolitical Economy and Noonomy Against Marketist Economics. Noonomy and Noosociety. Almanac of Scientific Works of the S.Y. Witte INID, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 31–43. DOI: 10.37930/2782-6465-2024-3-3-31-43
Author:
James K. Galbraith, The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin (Texas, USA)
Abstract:
The author proposes that low and stable inequality is associated with strong institutions and wealth while high inequality becomes the fate of poorer countries with open economies, unstable commodity prices and interest rates, as well as military conflicts and political upheavals. At the same time, in the richest countries of the global center (especially in the United States), the main driver of inequality is the growing position of the financial sector and the market capitalization of the technology sector (companies) that control the “knowledge economy”.
Keywords: global inequality, technological change, knowledge economy, noonomy.
For citation:Galbraith J. K. (2024). Inequality and Industrial Change – a Noonomy Perspective. Noonomy and Noosociety. Almanac of Scientific Works of the S.Y. Witte INID, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 19–30. DOI: 10.37930/2782-6465-2024-3-3-19-30
Author:
Svetlana G. Pyankova, Ural State University of Economics (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
Abstract:
The paper outlines the key methodological principles of teaching the Noonomy study course using the experience of the Ural State University of Economics, aimed at the formation of high-quality knowledge, which contributes to the creation of a noohuman. The author examines the main documents regulating the conduct of educational activities in universities of the Russian Federation, analyzes the theoretical basis of the methodology specifics of modern teaching in higher education, as well as modern methods of organizing the educational process.
Keywords: methodology, modern education, knowledge intensity, digital transformation, information society, human capital, noohuman.
For citation:Pyankova S.G. (2024). Methodological and Practical Outlines for Development of the Noonomy Theory Study Course (Based on the Example of the Ural State University of Economics). Noonomy and Noosociety. Almanac of Scientific Works of the S.Y. Witte INID, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 69–81. DOI: 10.37930/2782-6465-2024-3-3-69-81
Author:
Sergey D. Bodrunov, S.Y. Witte Institute for New Industrial Development (INID), (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Abstract:
The author raises the issue of the growing crisis of modern civilization. The existing socio-economic system, having ensured significant technological progress, was unable to cope with the consequences of using the latest technologies. For a long time, the ecological crisis has been escalating, the problem of social inequality has been increasing, the pace of economic development has been slowing down, and international conflicts keep flaring up. Due to the financialization of the economy, the interests of production development become subordinate to the interests of the expansion of the financial market. At the same time, it is the latest technologies that contain the potential to overcome the crisis phenomena. The core of these technological capabilities is shaped by the industrial sector of the economy, which remains the driver of economic development. The technologies of current technological orders are characterized by the increasing role of knowledge in production with a corresponding decreasing role of material costs. At the same time, the production of knowledge does not replace material production but transfers it to a new stage of development - the stage of knowledge-intensive material production. This allows for a significantly higher level of satisfaction of people’s needs with relatively lower costs. However, to realize this potential, it is necessary to move away from today’s economic rationality, which often leads to the inflation of simulated needs in pursuit of a large sales volume, and thus to the aggravation of thoughtless waste of natural resources, which has already brought the world to the brink of an ecological crisis. It is necessary to move from economy to noonomy, a social system based on the gradual displacement of humans from direct production, the transition of people to predominantly creative activity and a change in social priorities and values. In such a production system, the issues of meeting people’s needs are resolved by a relatively autonomously functioning technosphere, and people are connected not so much by relations in the system of direct production as by interaction in the process of creative activity. The requirements of the old economic production rationality and consumer behavior are replaced by the requirements of knowledge and culture. The pursuit of the volume of consumed goods is replaced by ensuring the growth of people’s abilities, determined by the level of their cultural development
Keywords: crisis of civilization, industrial production, knowledge intensity, technological order, economic rationality, noonomy
For citation:Bodrunov S. D. (2024). Beyond Modern Capitalism: Knowledge, Technolosies, Noonomy. Noonomy and Noosociety. Almanac of Scientific Works of the S.Y. Witte INID, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 9–18. DOI: 10.37930/2782-6465-2024-3-3-9-18
Author:
Anatoly A. Porokhovsky, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)
Abstract:
The article examines the importance and influence of market principles on the process of globalization of the world economy, which actually consolidated the leadership of the United States and turned globalization into Americanization. At the same time, along with economic factors, non-economic factors – political, military and others – have played and continue to play a significant role. However, the competitiveness of countries as a market principle of fairness is constrained by American interests. Meanwhile, the formation of a new world economic order makes it possible to support the national economic interests of all countries in a multicentric world economy. The theory of noonomy allows us to reveal modern global trends in various fields
Keywords: noonomy, market mechanism, national economic sovereignty, multicentricity of the world economy
For citation:Porokhovsky A.А. (2024). Market Grounds for Formation Multicentricity in the Global Economy. Noonomy and Noosociety. Almanac of Scientific Works of the S.Y. Witte INID, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 62–68. DOI: 10.37930/2782-6465-2024-3-3-62-68