Философия/2.Социальная философия

Ph D in Social Philosophy Hlushko T.

National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Ukraine

Philosophy of economics and national economic strategy: modern perspective

An integral part of modern researches of social philosophy is the development of philosophy of economics. The structure of this sphere of cognition is consist of such branches as metaphysics of economy, economical anthropology, economical axiology etc.

The purpose of our research is to state such structural level of philosophy of economics as philosophy of national economic strategy, which has not been paid much attention in philosophical researches nowadays, in global and also local contexts.

It causes necessity of further conceptualization of prevailing in present-day globalization model, also called westernization [1]. It is also related to neoliberal economic ideology, which has spread after World War II and made a placebo effect on global cultural, politics and social-economic life. Moreover, influence of neoliberalism as economic ideology on world development has trend characteristic of modern society. As a result, the classical liberal economic ideas were succeeded to attain such effects in postwar European countries for the purpose of their decentralization. In the same time, a practice of state regulation returned into US economics, which gradually development in centralized economic model with strong centre and periphery appendages.

We called the neoliberalism the “New Middle Age’s economic ideology” [2] and the phenomenon of neoliberal economic ideology spreading – an economic faith. However, today we have very specific situation when functional structure of economic calls world wide financial crisis which affected all the countries which had trusted the neoliberal economic values. Such analysis of neoliberal economic ideology leads to the conclusion that European state-nations’ (cultural or geographic) economical systems are need to be transformed. To rich this goal we need, at first, to develop special concepts and categories in modern philosophy of economics as a reliable basis of economic ideology transformation.

According to our point of view it is necessary to turn the special attention to I. Wallerstein’s theory and especially to his futurological analysis of modern civilization. In the I.Wallersteins’s article “Globalization or The Age of Transition?” we can read: “We do indeed stand at a moment of transformation. But this is not that of an already established newly globalized world with clear rules. Rather we are located is an age of transition, transition not merely of a few backward countries who need to catch up with the spirit of globalization, but a transition in which the entire capitalist world-system will be transformed into something else” [3].

In our opinion, such conclusions require us to definite possible social-economic strategies in national, but non-neoliberal, context. On the assumption of this reason we have to realize the national economic values and advantages according to the national economic mentality. Social-economic cogitations in philosophy of economics sphere lead us to analysis of the common economic interests and needs of modern Ukrainian society. In fact, excessive individualism in our economic culture demands statement of modern philosophical researches of our society as a function of philosophy of economics.

Nowadays economic faith of the liberal open market idea makes citizens to disagree to donate their labor or financial resources to a common cause and each member of the community tries to fulfill personal interests and needs individually, without making use of collective forms of action. Therefore we need to find the real reasons not only to explain the present situation of the social-economic sphere, but to predict possible variants of such decentralized economic mentality transformation. Furthermore, we need to use methodological potential of modern philosophy of economics to format the national economic development strategies in newly globalized world conditions.

The world wide financial crisis has convincingly demonstrated non-efficiency of neoliberal economic faith which is also called an ideology and, as a result, demonstrated an extreme need of considerable changes of social-economic structure in our society. The basic directions of social-economic sphere reforming in such case are, in our opinion, a simultaneous both global and national conceptions of development, which must be nonconforming to western economic system. It will give us in such way a possibility to avail the bifurcation point in modern civilization development and to improve our national social-economic perspectives with formation of complete system of social and economic processes regulation.

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2. Глушко Т.П. Неолібералізм як економічна ідеологія «Нового Середньовіччя» // Науковий часопис НПУ імені М.П. Драгоманова, 2009. – № 22 (35). – С. 134-141.

3. Wallerstein I. Globalization or The Age of Transition? [electronic resource] http://fbc.binghamton.edu/iwtrajws.htm