THE THEORY OF ECONOMIC SECURITY: A CONCEPTUAL SPATIAL APPROACH IN THE DISCOURSE OF A NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY
The expediency of a new direction of economic science, which can be identified as a theory of economic security, is substantiated. The various points of view available in the literature on the problems of ensuring economic security are often very contradictory and not holistic, and the conceptual and categorical apparatus of researchers is very unstable. The authors of this article propose to eliminate the noted contradictions based on the use of a conceptual spatial approach, since the subjects of the study can be both economic actors (individuals, enterprises, firms, regions, states) and economic entities (phenomena and processes). At the same time, it is proposed to use the methods of new political economy as the methodological basis of the study, taking into account the multi-directionality, representation and expression of the economic interests of various subjects of economic relations.
Keywords: economic security, methodology of economic science, spatial approach, new political economy, theory of economic security.
Highlights:
the political and economy analysis of the theory of economic security is carried out;
the application of the conceptual spatial approach to the analysis is proposed;
the authors use the methods of new political economy as a methodological basis of the study.
Vasily V. Chekmarev, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Kostroma State University; Vladimir A. Noskov, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Samara State University of Economics.