Author:
Andrey I. Kolganov, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)
Abstract:
the world civilization is currently facing not only problems caused by profound shifts in the global balance of economic and political forces, but also the growing need to resolve universal issues, including a dangerous aggravation of the ecological crisis, the erosion of human self-identification, and the growth of military confrontation as well. At the same time, technological progress bears the possibility of alleviating the resource strains on the natural environment, developing the creative content of human activity, and of reasonable consumption limitation on its own. The nature of social relations in which scientific and technological progress develops determines the choice between these two tendencies. Ultimately, the solution of the issue lies in the transition from economic rationality to rationality based on the criteria of reason and culture. However, as long as we remain within the boundaries of an economic society, it is necessary to learn how to single out those economic relations and institutions that will contribute to a gradual transition from a self-destructive orientation towards economic rationality and the solution to the civilizational crisis. The study of these relations and institutions is the subject of political economy, which makes it possible to reveal the fundamental foundations for the development of the socio-economic structure of society.
Keywords: balance of economic and political forces, methods of political economy, planning, public relations, socio-economic institutions, civilizational shifts, ecological crisis, economic rationality.
For citation: Kolganov A.E. (2022). Fundamental civilizational shifts from the point of view of the method of political economy. Noonomy and Noosociety. Almanac of Scientific Works of the S.Y. Witte INID, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 93–105. DOI: 10.37930/2782-618X-2022-1-3-93-105.