| | | | PROBLEMS OF MODERN ECONOMICS, N 1 (97), 2026 | | | | SHARING PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE | | | Sorokin A. V.
Chair of political economy, Department of Economics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, PhD (Economics), Professor
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| | Initially, the word “economy” was applied to individual households, and the economy of a city/state was called political economy. Then it became known as economics. Strictly speaking, the course should be called “applied fundamental economics,” i.e., a science that uses esoteric (as in political economy) and exoteric (as in economics and political economy) methods in order to apply the results of analysis in practice.
The specification of the name of the course is associated with the elimination of the stereotypical erroneous identification of political economy with politics and class struggle and the obvious insufficiency of economics. The course developed by the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) at University College London UCL, the University of Oxford, King’s College London and the International University College of Turin to the CORE curriculum, emphasizes that a modern introductory course cannot be called economics, but should be called economy. The specification of the name is also due to the possibility of its use in the educational process. In Russia, “Economics” is a basic course for non-economic majors.
This lecture is a continuation of the previous one (see No. 3, 2025). It examines Russian local civilization in one of the most difficult periods — that of socialism. The purpose of the lecture is to show that it was not an arbitrary “socialist experiment,” but was subject to the objective laws of development in the context of a clash of civilizations. | | Key words: method of production of life, relations of production, socialist revolution, communal revolution, collective farms, defense of the fatherland, post-war development of the USSR, two-rail transition to the market in China | | Pages: 186 - 197 |
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