METHODOLOGICAL IMPERATIVES OF MODERN POLITICAL-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

Abstract

Aim. The series of articles, which includes this work, is devoted to the development of key elements of a new quality of political economic analysis relevant to the modern specifics of economic development. Methodology. The research approach is based on the use of the heuristic potential of logical and epistemological analysis, the dialectics of “essence and phenomenon”, as well as on the interdisciplinary systemic paradigm. Results. It has been proved that the monetary-liberal paradigm of political economy is a form of methodological individualism that has reached «maximum efficiency». At the same time, the new systemic functional of the methodology of political economic analysis should consist in a qualitative renewal of its value basis, the metaphysical basis of which is seen as the spiritual and moral form of human activity. Research implications. The research results contribute to the development of a new qualitative integrity of political economic analysis, concretization of the reproductive approach to the study of the public sector of the economy, verification of the shift of the «center of gravity» of the current political economic model towards the sociocultural form of methodological individualism.