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Некоторые Аспекты Экономической Теории Государства. Научный Доклад
[Some aspects of the economic theory of the state. Scientific report]

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  • Рубинштейн Александр Яковлевич
  • Городецкий Андрей Евгеньевич

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Настоящий доклад следует рассматривать в качестве введения в новую тему исследований в научном направлении ИЭ РАН «Теоретическая экономика». Его содержание представляет собой описание авторского подхода к построению экономической теории современного государства, важными составляющими которой являются теория опекаемых благ и общая концепция изъянов смешанной экономики. Указанный подход лег в основу анализа патернализма, позволил выйти за пределы привычной для этой категории «отцовской заботы» государства о своих гражданах и предложить более общую трактовку данного понятия. Наряду с институциональным, распределительным и поведенческим провалами в работе описан особый вид изъянов смешанной экономики – «патерналистский провал», представляющий комбинацию изъянов общественного выбора и нерациональных действий госслужащих. Выделены четыре типа нерациональности бюрократии: дилетантизм, «эффект кассира», закон Паркинсона и своекорыстие чиновников. В докладе рассмотрены также теоретические и прикладные аспекты концепции консенсусной демократии, обеспечивающей либерализацию процессов принятия политических и экономических решений на основе институтов гражданского общества и гражданского контроля над деятельностью органов исполнительной власти. The present report should be considered as an introduction to a new theme of research in the scientific direction of the IE of the RAS (The Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences) called “The Theoretical Economics”. Its content represents a description of the author’s approach to the construction of the economic theory of the modern state, the important components of which are the theory of patronized goods and the general concept of flaws of the mixed economy. The specified approach formed the basis of the analysis of paternalism, it allowed to go beyond the usual, the habitual for this category “paternal care” of the state about its citizens and to offer a more general interpretation of the given concept. Along with institutional, distributive and behavioral lailures, a special type of flaws of the mixed economy is described in the paper – it is a “paternalistic failure” that represents a combination of flaws of public choice and irrational actions of civil servants. Four types of irrationality of bureaucracy are highlighted, are singled out: these are dilettantism, the “cashier effect”, the law of Parkinson and the self-interest of bureaucrats. The report also examines the theoretical and applied aspects of the concept of consensus democracy, ensuring the liberalization of the processes of political and economic decision-making on the basis of the institutions of civil society and civil control over the activities of executive bodies.

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  • Рубинштейн Александр Яковлевич & Городецкий Андрей Евгеньевич, "undated". "Некоторые Аспекты Экономической Теории Государства. Научный Доклад [Some aspects of the economic theory of the state. Scientific report]," Working papers a:pru175:a:pgo471:ye:2017, Institute of Economics.
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    patronized goods; meritorious goods; market failures; paternalism; failures of the state; managerial failure; bureaucracy; failure of “goodwill”; consensus democracy; institutions; civil society;
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    JEL classification:

    • C70 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - General
    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • D5 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium
    • D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
    • D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • Z28 - Other Special Topics - - Sports Economics - - - Policy

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