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Курсовая: Рыночная экономика
The contents
I Economic sciences. | 1. Microeconomic. | 2. Macroeconomic | II State regulations of economy. | 1. Brief historical information. | 2. Concept of state economic politics. | 3. Subjects of state regulation of economy. | Four communication lines of economic interests with | By state economic politics. | 1). Carriers of economic interests. | 2). Expressers of economic interests. | 3). The executors of economic interests. | 4). The return communication line. | 5). The questionnaire. | 4. Objects of state regulation of economy. | 1). State anticyclic politics. | 2). State regulation of economy in area | Branch and territorial structure. | 3). Accumulation of the capital. | 4). Regulation of employment. | 5). The money manipulation. | 6). A condition of payment balance. | 7). The prices. | 5. General purpose of state regulation | Economy and tree of the purposes. | 6. Means of state regulation of economy. | 1). Administrative means. | 2). Economic means. | 3). The state budget. | 4). The taxes. | 5). Accelerated amortisation. | 6). Public sector. | 7). Means of the external economic regulation. | 7. State economic programming. | 1). Objects of the programs. | 2). The usual and extreme programs. | 3). The target programs. | 4). The subjects of economic programming. | 5). Borders of economic programming. | 8. Mechanism of state regulation of economy | On an example of the prices. | 1). The price right. | 2). Supervision of the state over the prices. | 3). Indirect influence of the state on the prices. | 4). Direct state intervention in process of money appearing. | 5). Influence state sector. | 6). The contribution of public sector to process | Price control. | 9. Inflation. | 1). The reasons of occurrence of inflation. | a). Internal. | b). External. | 2). Types of inflation. | a). Slow inflation. | b). Galloping inflation. | c). Hyperinflation. | 3). Consequences of inflation. | a). Positive functions. | b). Negative consequences. | 4). Management of inflation. | 10. Unemployment. | 1). The market of work. | 2). Classification of the unemployed. | 3). The formula of calculation of monthly average | Rate of unemployment. | 4). The concepts treating a phenomenon of unemployment. | 5). Directions of state regulation | Market of work. | 6). Labour exchange. | 11. Stages of state regulation of economy. | | III Lists of the used literature. |
“The People, who have never systematically learned the economic theory, are
similar to deaf persons, which try to estimate sounding an orchestra ”.
P. Samulson
There are fields of knowledge and vital experience, about which, it seems any
of us can judge. Except for politics, to such spheres concern medicine and,
certainly, economy. It is not casual, you see economy – science is empirical,
it connection with practice is direct. Each of us, irrespective of
preparation, collides daily with the economic phenomena. We are all workers -
create values or we raise the qualification, we receive the incomes, we
address to the market, we watch (keep up) the prices, we are the consumers.
The economy studies “homo economics” - economic man, his actions and
interests. Well as in medicine, where for statement of the diagnosis it is
necessary to know the functioning of a healthy organism, first of all to
understand the laws of functioning of healthy economy.
The economic science is called to define how to use the limited resources
maximum effectively - natural stocks, capitals, labour reserves. Like other
branches of knowledge, the economy includes a set of axioms and proofs,
suitable for the analysis in any concrete conditions. And in this narrow
sense it can not be national, as well as there can not be a American physics
or German mathematics. The prices of the goods everywhere are defined by a
parity of a supply and demand, with the growth of the income there is a
reduction of its consumed part and increase gathering.
But the economy has basic difference from exact and natural sciences: it has
business not with the separate man on a uninhabited island, but with the
member of a society subject to influence of traditions, national mentality
and political institutes. The toolkit of the economist has therefore national
specificity.
The science is formed approximately the same as the tree grows or the
building is constructed. The great economists of the past have put in pawn
the base, have created the theory named as microeconomy. As initial item for
the analysis a facilities of the businessman and farmer were taken. The
microeconomy studies the relation between the businessmen (competition),
businessmen and hired workers, sellers and buyers. It formulates the laws:
supplies and demand, rarity-decreasing income, limiting productivity of work
or capital. The microeconomy is directly connected to enterprise activity, at
the same time being a management for business.
The economic theory created in 18 - 19 centuries is named classical, it
answered requirements of development of an industrial society based on a
private property and freedom of an economic choice. The creativity of
ingenious Adam Smite for economy is compared to the invention of a wheel.
Gradually national economy is turning to complex systems of branches forming
a global economy. Periodically repeating economic crisises, chronic -
unemployment and inflation become a rule.
Business practice includes problems, which are not solved through traditional
means. The economists begin to be interested in questions of general balance,
cumulative demand, money manipulation.
The 20 centuries appeared to be a stage of macroeconomy. The large system is
not only set of small subsystems - firms and branches, but also a new
quality. Its actions are operated by other mechanisms. Macrosystem can not be
described by categories of microsystem (price, profit, competition etc.). New
techniques and tools here are necessary.
The Macroeconomic analysis becomes a basis of state politics, development of
the programs, selective (“dot”) methods of influence. But macroeconomic is
knowledge that works not far from business. You see such formulas, as the
return dependence between inflation and unemployment in scale of a society, or
between bank percent and rates of growth of a total product, between growth of
inflation and downturn of the exchange rate of domestic currency is necessary
to know, even to expect changes of a conjuncture and probable general idea of
government, direction of state regulation of economy.
“ Most of all laws were created in vague times of republic... ”
The state regulation of economy has a long history. The practice here
outstrips the theory. During early capitalism in Europe there was a
centralised control above the prices, quality of the goods and services,
interest rates and foreign trade.
17 century – is a century of the pioneers of the normative economic theory -
wrote that only detailed management on the part of government is capable to
supply the order in economic sphere. They saw in a state management a means
of ensuring social validity.
With transition to capitalism and appearing of free competition, many aspects
of “pioneers” theory were destroyed. The approach of people who based a
classical economy (18 centuries), limiting state intervention in economic
life, has the historical explanation. You see in that period economy was
ruled by the market and freedom of a choice. In economic sense freedom
assumes two main components: the right, to a private property protected by
the law and independence of acceptance of the decisions. In 18 - 19 centuries
the economic role of the state was reduced, basically, to protection of these
primary rights. The XX century was market by almost universal strengthening
of economic presence of the state.
From the second half of 19 century national manufacture has achieved
unprecedented scales. The end of the century is connected with explosion,
jump in scientific - technical development and appearance of new branches.
All these circumstance needed requirement for co-ordination, for maintenance
of proportions on macro-level, for anticyclic regulation.
The amplification of state regulation was dictated by the purposes of
preparation to wars, their conducting, maintenance of war-protection. The
whole system of measures including compulsory movements system (GERMANY),
protectionism (Japan) was developed. The army-industrial complexes closely
connected to government were formed.
The state regulation of economy was necessary for realisation of social
politics, for general strategy socialisation in a broad sense. Collective
consumption or satisfaction of public requirements (public health services,
education, support deprived and others) are impossible without use of state
levers and organisations.
And, at last, it would be desirable to emphasise, meaning day today's, need
for state support and sometimes organisations of fundamental scientific
researches, and also protection of environment.
The state regulation, thus, is caused by occurrence of new economic needs,
with which the market on the nature can not consult.
And, though the similar regulation in modern market economy is carried out in
much smaller scales, than in administrative - command system, nevertheless
here economic role of the state is great, is special in comparison with the
system of a free competition.
The state regulation of economy in conditions of a market economy represents
system of typical measures of legislative, executive and supervising
character which is carried out by competent official bodies and public
organisations with the purposes of stabilisation and the adaptation existing
socially - of economic system, and conditions.
In the process of development of a market economy the economic and social
problems became aggravated, they could not be solved automatically on the
basis of a private property. The necessity of the significant investments,
has appeared necessary for continuation of reproduction in national scales;
branch and social crises, mass unemployment, the infringements in the money
manipulation become aggravated competition in the global markets required
state economic politics.
Theoretically concept state economic wider than concept of state regulation
of economy, as first can be based on a principle of non-interference of the
state in economic life (known principle of economic liberalism laisser faire
- laisser passer). In modern conditions the non-interference of the state in
socially - economic processes is impossible. Disputes about necessity of
state regulation of economy, and about its scales, forms and intensity are
conducted for a long time. Therefore terms “ state regulation of economy ”
and “ state economic politics ” are presently identical.
The objective opportunity of state regulation occurs with the achievement of
the certain level of economic development, concentration of manufacture and
capital. The necessity of transforming this opportunity into the validity
consists in increase of problems, difficulties.
In modern conditions the state regulation of economy is a component of
reproduction. It solves various tasks: for example, stimulation of economic
growth, regulation of employment, encouragement of progressive shifts in
branch and regional structure, support of export. The concrete directions,
forms, scales of state regulation of economy are defined by character and
acuteness of economic and social problems in this or that country in the
concrete period.
For understanding of the mechanism of state regulation of economy it is
expedient to characterise its subjects, objects, purposes, means, and also
stages of its development.
The subjects of economic politics are the carriers and executors of economic
interests.
The carriers of economic interests are social groups distinguished from each
other on a number of attributes: property, the incomes, on kinds of activity
at the similar incomes, on trades, branch and regional interests. They are
hired workers and owners of the enterprises, farmers and land proprietors,
businessmen managers and the shareholders, civil servants etc. Each of these
groups has interests caused by their social economic rule, and also accessory
to that or other region, kind of activity.
The representatives of these groups individually express the interests in
mass media, on meetings and addressing with the requests, protests, wishes to
official bodies responsible for economic and social politics.
It is the first communication line of economic interests with the state
device regulating an economy.
The carriers of economic interests are incorporated in the advanced countries of
a market economy in numerous unions, association: it is trade unions, unions of
the businessmen, farmers, various dealers, students, brokers and ò.
Item. Some of these unions total millions members (trade unions, for example),
others play a huge role in a national economy because of the capitals,
represented by them, (unions of the businessmen, bank establishments, trade
chambers). There are also absolutely insignificant associations, for example,
association of the physical and legal persons interested in a privatisation of
the concrete ground area, belonging to municipality. Such associations are
expressers of economic interests.
Most powerful expressers of economic interests are unions of the businessmen
and trade unions. They carry out the own concepts of social economic
politics, aspiring to render the maximal influence on state economic
politics. At expressers of economic interests there are printed editions,
significant financial resources, centres of training of personnel and public
relations. The unions of the businessmen and trade unions are constructed to
a branch and territorial attribute, all local and branch unions
hierarchically are subordinated to the national centres, which, in turn,
enter into the international, regional and global associations.
The recommendations, advises, memorandums, various channels of influence
these expressers of economic interests on bodies of state economic regulation
is the second communication line of economic interests with state economic
politics.
Expressers of social economic, political, religious, cultural, ecological,
specific regional interests are the political parties, which frequently work
under a banner of national interests.
To carry out in life the program of state economic politics there will be a
subject of state economic regulation - executors of economic interests. It is
the main, third line of transformation of private-individual economic
interests in state economic politics.
The executors of economic interests - subjects of state regulation of economy
- are the bodies of three branches of authorities constructed by a
hierarchical principal, and also central national bank. The tendency of
amplification of a role of the central bodies of authority among the subjects
of state economic regulation is appreciable more and more independent becomes
the executive bodies.
Interesting from the point of view of study of the mechanism of state
regulation of economy the merge of the subjects of state and private economic
politics and occurrence is as a result of it of new regulating bodies which
are not entered theoretically in the classical circuit of parliamentary or
presidential republic. For example, the body from the representatives of
unions of the businessmen, trade unions and executive authority for
regulation of the tariff agreements between the businessmen and workers are
created. The committees, advice on maintenance or development of separate
branches from the representatives of the ministry of economy and branch
unions of the businessmen are organised. Similar advice is created for
realisation of the state regional programs. The basic part of such bodies
formally carries out advisory activity, but actually decisive image influence
state economic politics. Various advice of the experts concerns to such
bodies at government, ministries of economy, finance, social maintenance,
their separate management, central bank, governments of state iron roads,
mail and telegraph etc.
Other group of government-private regulation of economy is advice on spheres
of activity, for example, scientific and technical, army-industrial, on
regional politics, on internal waterways of the messages, on vocational
training. As against branch advice in them the representatives of the most
different branches, banks, various funds, associations of the engineers,
trade unions, public movements enter alongside with the employees of
governmental bodies and experts. Their recommendations concern the basic
orientation of state economic politics, its directions of an expenditure of
means from the budget and various funds.
It is the fourth communication line between carriers of economic interests
and state regulation of economy: carriers (in this case interested firms) –
expressers (unions of the businessmen) – advice at state regulating bodies.
On this line there is an updating of interests of a private enterprise to
interest others social, professional, public (for example, ecological)
groups.
There are numerous opportunities of influence of carriers and expressers of
economic interests on state economic politics: through bodies of the mass
information, demonstration and manifestation, tax of the signatures,
manipulation in courts - from local up to international, campaign of civil
disobedience.
Feedback between state regulation of economy and carriers of economic
interests rather rigid.
First, the success of state regulation of economy is shown in rates of
growth, improvement of structure of economy, growth of employment, healthy
payment balance, decrease of rates of inflation, increase of a vital level.
Secondly, the successes of state regulation of economy are reflected in
parameters which are not always given in to exact quantitative measurement:
in a level of social intensity (strike, demonstrations, various
performances), estimation of state regulation of economy by mass media,
condition of an environment, quality of life in cities.
Thirdly, carriers of economic interests are direct and through the
associations supported or do not support government. The loss of trust of the
voters and associations of economic interests to a ruling party or parties is
a main line of a feedback between state economic politics and carriers of
economic interests.
The bodies of state regulation of economy can not afford to find out reaction
of carriers of economic interests to a general orientation and concrete
measures of state economic politics during choices, to wait, when the
discontent by an economic situation starts. The extreme forms (strike, flight
of the capital). The operative information, whenever possible authentic
forecasts the behaviour of the economic subjects is necessary to governmental
bodies in case of realisation of this or that measure of state regulation of
economy. For this purpose there is a fulfilled mechanism as biographical
interrogations. Through a biographical method the efficiency of toolkit
budget, a special way of regulation, influence of state purchases and orders,
investments in public sector are investigated. This method has turned out to
be the working tool of state regulation of economy ensuring a feedback
between regulating bodies and carriers of economic interests.
So, it was the ideal picture of dependence of state regulation of economy
from economic interests, mechanism of this dependence and feedback. In real
life weight of rejections from model - is observed there is a struggle
between separate groups of interests for influence on bodies of regulation, a
wide circulation has received these method, the facts of corruption in bodies
of state economic politics in the various countries are known. But the
mechanism of state regulation of economy functions all the same not on
rejections, but by rules.
The objects of state regulation of economy are spheres, branches, regions,
and also situations, phenomenon and condition of social economic life of the
country, where have arisen or there can be difficulties, problems not
permitted automatically or permitted in a long-term future, while the removal
of these problems urgently is necessary for normal functioning of economy and
maintenance of social stability.
The basic objects of state regulation of economy is:
· Business cycle;
· Sectors, branch and regional structure of a economy;
· Conditions of accumulation of the capital;
· Employment;
· The money reference(manipulation);
· Payment balance;
· The prices
· Research also is skilled - design works having by the purpose
development and realisation of scientific ideas;
· Conditions of a competition;
· The social attitudes(relations), including the attitudes(relation)
between the employers and working on hiring, and also social maintenance;
· Preparation and retraining of the staff;
· Environment;
· Foreign economic relations.
Obviously, the transferred objects can carry completely various character,
they cover macroeconomic processes - economic cycle, accumulation of the
capital in scales of the country, separate branches, territorial complexes
and even the relation between the subjects – the condition of a competition,
the relations between trade unions and associations of the businessmen,
between state regulating bodies.
Let's consider major of them.
The essence of state anticyclic politics, or regulation of an economic
conjuncture, is, that during crises and depressions should stimulate demand
for the goods and services, capital investments and employment. For this
purpose the additional financial privileges are given to the private capital,
the state charges and investments are increased. In conditions of long and
rough rise in a national economy there can be dangerous phenomena – using of
commodity stocks, growth of import and deterioration of payment balance,
excess of demand on a labour above the offer and from here unreasonable
growth of wages and prices. In such situation, the task of state regulation
of economy - to brake growth of demand, capital investments and manufacture
whenever possible to reduce overproduction of the goods and less products of
the capitals and, thus, to reduce depth and duration of possible recession of
manufacture, investments and employment in the future.
The state regulation of economy in the field of branch and territorial
structure also is carried out through financial stimulus and state capital
investments, which provide privileged conditions to separate branches and
regions. In one cases the support appears to branches and territorial units
which are taking place in a condition of long crisis; in others - the
development of new branches and kinds of manufactures - carriers of
scientific and technical progress called to result to progressive structural
changes inside branches, between branches and in all a national economy as a
whole. The increase of its efficiency and competitiveness is encouraged. At
the same time can be the stopping of excessive concentration of manufacture
arranged on.
Major object of state economy regulation is the accumulation of the capital.
Manufacture, assignment and capitalisation of the profit always serve an
overall objective of economic activity in market economy, therefore state
economic politics of encouragement of accumulation first of all corresponds
to economic interests to the subjects of an economy. Simultaneously state
regulation of accumulation is also used to serve also to other objects of
state economy regulation. Creating additional stimulus and opportunities in
different time to all investors or their separate groups on branches and
territories the regulating bodies influence a business cycle and structure.
The regulation of employment is maintenance normal from the point of view of
market economy of parity between a supply and demand of a labour. Parity
should satisfy requirement of economy for the qualified and disciplined
workers, which wages serve for them a sufficient motivation to work. However
parity between a supply and demand should not conduct to excessive growth of
wages, which can be reflected negative in national competitiveness. The sharp
decrease of employment is undesirable also, it conducts to increase the army
of the unemployed, decrease of consumer demanded, tax receipts, growth of the
charges on the grants and, most important, it is dangerous by social
consequences.
Constant object of attention of state regulating bodies is money
manipulation. The basic orientation of regulation of money manipulation -
struggle with inflation representing serious danger to economy. The
regulation of money manipulation influences and other objects - condition of
accumulation, price, social relations.
The condition of payment balance is an objective parameter of economic health
of the country. In all countries with a market economy the state constantly
carries out operative and strategic regulation of payment balance by
influence on export and import, movement of the capital, increase and
downturn of rates of national currencies, marketcontractual politics and
participation in the international economic integration.
One more of the main objects of regulation - price. Changes and structure of
the prices reflect a condition of economy. At the same time prices strongly
influence structure of economy, condition of capital investments, stability
of national currency, social atmosphere.
The state regulating instances aspire to influence and other objects of state
regulation of economy, for example, to interest private concerns in
development of scientific researches and introduction of their results, in
export of goods, capitals, both saved knowledge and experience are studied
and the laws on observance of rules of a competition, social protection,
protection of an environment are improved.
The objects of state economy regulation of differ depending on a level of
tasks, solved by them. It is the following hierarchical levels: a level of
firm; region; branches; sectors of economy (industry, agriculture, service);
economy as a whole (economic cycle; the money manipulation; the prices);
global (social relations, ecology); economic-political relations with foreign
countries, integration processes).
The general purpose of state regulation of economy is the economic and social
stability and strengthening existing building inside the country and abroad,
adaptation to its varied conditions.
From this general purpose the tree so-called of the concrete purposes is
distributed, without which realisation the general purpose can not be
achieved. These concrete purposes indissoluble are connected with objects of
state regulation of economy. The purpose - alignment of a business cycle - is
directed on the object, that is on a business cycle; improvement of an
environment - on an environment etc.
It is obvious, that the purposes, first, uncommon on importance and scales
and, secondly are in close interrelation. More often one purpose can not be
put and is achieved without dependence from others. For example, it is
impossible to present stimulation НИОКР without creation of favourable
conditions of accumulation of the capital, without alignment of a
conjuncture, perfection of branch structure of economy, stable money
manipulation.
The listed purposes partially block each other, one can appear temporarily
more important and to subordinate to herself others depending on a real
economic and social situation, level of comprehension of this situation by
the subjects of state regulation of economy and from established by
governmental bodies on the given interval of time of system of priorities of
the purposes. Any of the above named purposes can serve, to promote or to
interfere with achievement of other purpose. The concrete purposes inside a
tree of the purposes can be primary, secondary, tertiary etc. For example, in
conditions of crisis the primary purpose becomes an exit from crisis in
narrow concrete sense - revival of a conjuncture. All other purposes submit
to it.
The means of state regulation are subdivided on administrative and economic.
The administrative means are not connected with creation of additional
material stimulus or danger of financial damage. They are based on force of
state authority and include measures of an interdiction, sanction and
compulsion.
For example, the French authorities have forbidden to build the new
industrial enterprises within the limits of Parisian agglomerations, and for
achievement of this purpose they did not increase the taxes by the new
enterprises, have not entered rude the penalties, which could be economic
measures, and simply have stopped licensing for new industrial construction.
Or, the government of the Netherlands has solved to use former naval base as
passenger and trade port, by creating, thus, new sphere of the appendix of
the capital. In result in area of port the economic activity has increased.
The administrative means of regulation in the advanced countries with market
economy are used in insignificant scales. Their sphere of action basically is
limited to protection of an environment and creation of the minimal household
conditions rather poorly of socially protected layers of the population.
However in critical situations their role strongly grows, for example, during
war, emergency in economy. The most large-scale administrative actions on
regulation of economy in after War period of Japan were currency reformed and
made smaller of conducting concerns.
The economic means of state regulation are subdivided into means of money
credit and budget politics.
The independent complex tool of state regulation of economy (and
simultaneously by its object) is the public sector in economy. The maximum
form of state regulation of economy is a state economic programming covering
the numerous purposes and all tooling of state regulation of economy. About
public sector and economic programming the speech will go below.
The basic economic means are:
1) Regulation of the registration rate (discount politics which
is carried out by the central bank);
2) Establishment and change of the sizes of the minimal
reserves, which financial institutions of the country are obliged to keep in
the central bank;
3) Operation of official bodies in the market of valuable
papers, such as issue of the state obligations, trade by them and repayment.
Through these tools the state aspires to change a parity of a supply and
demand in the financial market (market of the loan capitals) in a desirable
direction. In process of relative decrease of a role of the markets of the
free capitals in financing capital investments and especially in connection
with reduction of a role of a share stock exchange and growth of self-
maintenance of the large companies by financial assets the effectiveness of
these tools in the most advanced countries has weakened a little.
The direct state economic regulation is carried out by means of budget
politics. The state budget is an annual plan of the state charges and sources
of the incomes of their financial covering. The project of the budget
annually is discussed and is accepted by a legislative body - parliament of
the country, state or government by assembly. After the end of financial the
year the proxy representatives of the executive authority report about the
activity on mobilisation of the incomes and realisation of the charges in
conformity with accepted in the previous year by the law on the budget.
The state budget always represents the compromise reflecting a parity of
forces of the basic groups of carriers of various social economic interests.
The charges of the state budget carry out functions of political, social and
economic regulation.
The first place in the budget charges is occupied with social clauses: the
special grants, education, public health services etc. In it the overall
objective of budget politics, as well as all state economic politics in
general - stabilisation, strengthening and adaptation existing social
economic building to varying conditions is shown. These charges are called to
soften differentiation of social groups, it is inevitable peculiar to market
character.
In expenses for economic needs the budget grants to agriculture are usually
allocated. Any state can not be interested in ruin the peasantry, farmers.
And though in the external economic politics of government sometimes
temporarily endow interests of the domestic manufacturers of the agrarian
goods, supposing foreign agricultural production on a home market in reply to
concession of the trade partners, as a rule governments support average and
large farmers land.
The charges on arms and material maintenance of external politics, and also
administrative charge influence demand for consumer goods and services.
To the tactical purposes of budget regulation the charges on an internal
state duty (for example, prescheduled repayment of a part of the debt), sizes
of the charges on the credits both grants to the private and state
enterprises, agriculture, on creation and perfection of objects of an
infrastructure, on purchase of arms and military construction serve.
The sizes of these charges essentially influence scales of demand and size of
the investments. During crises and depressions the charges of the state
budget on the economic purposes, as a rule, grow, and in time when of slowing
conjuncture - are reduced.
The charges on crediting of export, insurance of the export credits and taken
out capital financed from the budget, stimulate export and in the long-term
plan improve payment balance, open for a national economy the new foreign
markets, promote strengthening of national currency, maintenance of
deliveries on a home market of the necessary goods because of a boundary. It
is the external economic aspect of politics of the budget charges.
The effectiveness of state regulation of economy with the help of the budget
charges depends, first, on the relative sizes of the spent sums; secondly,
from structure of these charges; thirdly, from efficiency of use of each unit
of spent means.
The main tools of mobilisation of financial assets for a covering of the
state charges are the taxes. They also are widely used for influence on
activity of the subjects of economy. It is a special role of the taxes. But
main role of the taxes - regulating. The state regulation through the taxes
depends in a decisive degree on a choice of tax system, and also from kinds
and sizes of tax privileges.
The taxes in state regulation of economy play a double role: on the one hand,
it is the main source of financing of the state charges, the material basis
of budget politics, on the other hand, is the tool of regulation. A task of
state budget bodies - not simply to impose with the taxes those or other
sources of receipt of means and to create the adjusted mechanism of influence
on economic behaviour of the legal and physical persons is thin. For this
purpose temporarily or selectively given tax discounts, delay of payment of
the taxes are used.
The special place among means of state regulation of economy which is carried
out through the taxes, plays accelerated amortisation of a fixed capital and
connected with it(him) formation(education) and realisation of the latent
reserves carried out within the framework of the sanctions of the ministries
of the finance.
Accelerated amortisation of a fixed capital in modern conditions is by the
main means of stimulation of accumulation, structural changes in economy and
important tool of influence on an economic cycle - the employment. Essence it
in a separation of physical process amortisation of machines, equipment,
buildings and structures from the production costs of carry of cost of
material carriers of a fixed capital on the made goods and services. Changing
the rates and order amortisation, the state regulating bodies determine that
part of the clean profit, which can be released from the taxes by inclusion
in production costs and then is listed in amortisation fund for financing in
the further new capital investments.
At check of correctness of payment of the tax from the profit the tax
inspectors agree with accounting of production costs or services only if the
amortisation deductions were made in conformity with norms solved by the
ministry of the finance. The size of the balance profit, rate and size of the
tax, and also paid dividends depends on it.
The variation of norms accelerated amortisation of a fixed capital is widely
used in all advanced countries as a means of state tactical and structural
politics, and also for stimulation of scientific researches and introduction of
their results, for financing nature protection of measures. The effect of a
variation of norms of amortisation deductions is swept up within a favourable
conjuncture, i.e. in the periods of slowing and crises the effectiveness of
amortisation politics weakens. The worse conjuncture, the more difficult &
is to realise profit, it is less than opportunities for self-financing, and the
amortisation privileges given by the state, becomes less attractive stimulus
for the private investments. The privileges on accelerated amortisation are
equivalent to reduction of receipts from the taxes from profits in the state
budget. Result can be increase of other taxes or growth state duty.
The state capital investments are carried out substantially in public sector
of economy playing a major role in state regulation of economy. It is
simultaneously object and tool of influence on a private enterprise.
The public sector represents a complex of economic objects, wholly or
partially belonging to the central and local state bodies. The public sector
existed in many countries long before development of capitalism, including
mail, partially transport service, manufacturing of the weapon etc. On a
measure forming systems of state regulation of economy the state built,
redeemed at the private proprietors economic objects, mainly in sphere of an
infrastructure, heavy industry, which functioning was always favourably and
it is necessary for a national economy, but not always it is favourable from
the point of view of the private capital.
In one country the public sector has arisen basically as a result of
nationalisation of a number of branches and enterprises (in France, Italy,
Great Britain, Austria), in others the state built or got ruined economic
objects (in USA, Sweden, Japan). In the first group of the countries the
share of public sector in national riches is higher, than in second.
Significant parts of public sector are objects of an infrastructure, in the
majority unprofitable. Other part - the state enterprises in raw and power
branches, where are required the large investments, and turnover of the
capital slow. Profitability of state-owned firms, as a rule, below, than
private. A part of public sector is packages of the actions of the mixed
private-state companies.
The existence in conditions of a market economy of sectors, which in the
activity is guided by principles a little bit distinguished from principles
of private concerns, allows using public sector for the decision of nation-
wide economic tasks, increasing money of a private enterprise.
The exclusive profit, and frequently and profit in general, is not the
paramount purpose of activity of public sector in an infrastructure, power,
raw branches, НИОКР, in preparation and retraining of the staff, in the field
of protection of an environment, as high profits nobody requires of these
spheres, and the losses become covered from the budget. Therefore public
sector has become the supplier of cheap services (in particular, transport,
mail-telegraphic), electric power and raw material, reducing, thus, costs in
private sector.
The public sector as a means of state regulation of economy is actively used.
So, in conditions of deterioration of a conjuncture, the depressions or
crisis, when the private capital investments are reduced, investment in
public sector, as a rule, grow. Thus, the governmental bodies aspire to
counteract recession of manufacture and growth of unemployment. The public
sector plays an appreciable role in state structural politics. The state
creates new objects or expands and reconstructs old in those spheres of
activity, branches or regions, where the private capital connected is not
enough. So, the public sector plays a huge role in economy, preparation and
retraining of the staff. The state-owned firms are engaged also in foreign
trade, export of the capital abroad, frequently acting by the pioneers in
introduction of the national capital in any country (for example,
participation of the German concern “ Volkswagen ”, federal taking place in
property federal and ground governments, in motor industry of Czech).
In the whole public sector serves addition of a private enterprise there and
such measure, where and as far as the motivation for the private capital
appears insufficient. In result the public sector serves to increase of
efficiency of a national economy as a whole and is one of tools of
redistribution of a total internal product (the complete internal product is
a cumulative cost of production of sphere of material manufacture and spheres
of services, irrespective of a national accessory of the enterprises located
in territory of the given country).
The sizes of public sector, its share in national economy, change not only as
a result of new construction and purchase, but also as a consequence of a
privatisation - sale profitable, reconstructed objects of public sector to
the private capital. In 80-th and 90-th years this tendency appreciably has
amplified.
Alongside with the listed tools of state regulation of economy having
internal economy the orientation, an arsenal of means of the external
economic regulation exists.
Practically all levers of influence on process of reproduction inside the
country render essential influence on foreign economic relations: change of
the registration rate, taxation new privileges and grants on the investment
in a fixed capital etc.
However there are also special tools of direct influence on economic
communications with abroad. It is, first of all, a measure of stimulation of
export of goods, services, capitals, scientific and technical and
administrative experience: crediting of export, warranting of the export
credits and investments abroad, introduction or cancellation of quantitative
restrictions, change of the duty in foreign trade; measures on attraction or
restriction of access of the foreign capital in a national economy, change of
conditions of its functioning, qualitative selection (from the point of view of
a branch orientation and technological level) acting from abroad capital,
attraction in the country of a foreign labour, participation in the
international economic organisations, integration state associations.
The separate tools of state economic politics can be used in the various
purposes, in various combinations and with different intensity. Depending on
character of the purposes the place of that or other tool in an arsenal of
means of state regulation of economy in the concrete period will vary.
The maximum form of state regulation of economy is the state economic
programming. Its task - complex use in the global purposes of all elements of
state regulation of economy.
In process of complication of tasks on regulation of economy of government of
steel to formulate short-term, intermediate term and long-term tasks to
determine the order of their decision and bodies responsible for performance
of these decisions, to allocate necessary means and to determine the order of
financing.
Objects of such target programs usually are the branches (in particular,
agriculture); regions; social sphere (for example, social economic adaptation
settlers, maintenance by their work and habitation); various directions of
scientific researches.
The programs are usual and extreme. The usual intermediate term programs are
made, as a rule, for five years with annual updating and prolongation for one
year (sliding programming). The extreme programs are developed in critical
situations, for example, in conditions of crisis, mass unemployment dangerous
inflation; they, as a rule, short-term. In toolkits of their realisation the
appreciable place is occupied with means of administrative regulation.
The level of development of state programming in the separate countries is
various. Practically in all countries of market economy the target programs
are carried out. One of oldest - regional-power target program on development
of pool of the river Tennessee in USA, program of development of nuclear
power in France, economic development of the south of Italy.
The national extreme programs on restoration of economy of Southern Korea
after war, on structural reorganisation and privatisation of new grounds
(East Germany) after connection of GDR to Germany are known.
In a citadel of a market economy - USA - the national programming is not
present, but widely target and extreme programs are applied. Obviously, the
distinctions in a degree of development of programming in the separate
countries depend on character and scales of tasks, which economic and social
situation puts before the state.
The subjects of economic programming - official bodies responsible for
drawing up of the programs, their direct realisation and control above them.
The programs are developed by a special state body (for example, Commissaries
on planning in France), and if it is not present, by the ministries of
economy and finance or special ministry system. Thus the ministry of economy,
as a rule, prepares the project of the program, formulates hierarchy of the
purposes, terms and sequence of realisation of separate measures, names
instances which are bearing responsibility for performance.
The ministry of the finance develops the plan of financing of the program.
The representatives of the central bank, unions of the businessmen,
commercial and industrial chambers, trade unions are widely involved in
development of the programs, the various commissions and advice of the
experts are created.
The program and financial plan are annually (in connection with a sliding
principle of prolongation) affirmed by parliament, also of time per one year
the reports on their performance are heard.
The state economic programming has appeared rather effective at the decision
of a number of economic and social tasks, however this efficiency has
objective borders. In conditions of market economy the programming can be
only indicative, that is to carry target-stimulating character. Nevertheless,
it has appeared a rather effective means of the decision of tasks of a
different level; if the state programs frequently also were not realised
completely, all of them - provided social economic development in a desirable
direction. That circumstance is not less important also, that the programming
allows systematically using all means of state regulation of economy, to
avoid discrepancy and inconsistency of regulating measures of separate
official bodies.
State financial stimulation, orders and the purchases within the framework of
the economic programs render appreciable and non-uniform influence on
competitiveness of the separate companies, situation of branches, regions, of
social groups and cause resistance what interests have appeared restrained.
On state programming systems therefore constantly there is a versatile
influence reflecting inconsistent interests of separate groups, public
forces, political groups.
Let's consider the mechanism of state regulation on an example of
politics of the prices.
Contrary to widespread at many to opinion, that in the countries of market
economy money appearing occurs spontaneously, actually prices are object of
constant attention and regulation on the part of the state. The prices are
one of critical points economic and social - political life, where the group
interests of the manufacturers and consumers, wholesale and retail dealers,
trade unions and unions of the businessmen, exporters and importers collide.
The prices mention interests everyone and, naturally, around of them there is
a struggle in parties and parliaments, in government and on negotiation of
the social partners, at the international meetings.
The influence on the prices serves to the global purposes of state regulation
of economy, purposes of tactical and structural politics, struggle with
inflation, amplification of national competitiveness in the world markets and
mitigation of social intensity. The influence of state economic politics on
other objects of regulation, in turn, is reflected in processes of formation
of the prices.
The concrete actions in the field of the prices can have short-term or even
the emergency purposes, which can in the given concrete moment not coincide
with other purposes, but at the end they always serve of the general purpose
of state regulation - optimisation of rates both proportions of economic
development and stabilisation of social system
The classical political economy examined the prices, freely developing in the
market, as the main element of the mechanism of maintenance of balance
between a supply and demand. However actually there was never of ideal
general and complete freedom money appearing. All question in a degree and
forms of restriction of free game of the prices. Even if to abstract from
opportunities of arrangement of the manufacturers and sellers, during all
history of capitalism it is possible to look after influence of the state on
the prices.
The tariffs for services of state iron roads, mail, telegraph, sale of the
foodstuffs from state stocks per poor harvest years, customs politics and
indirect taxation essential image influencing on the internal price, - here
the not complete list of measures of state price control for last 100 - 150
years.
The first world war which has begun after it depression and crisis, have
served as the moment of changes in a history of state price control. K.
Muller wrote in this occasion, that the political and economic shocks in the
state and society have caused comprehension that in interests of the best
functioning of a economy, more uniform distribution and avoidance of danger
of revolutionary revolution it would be expedient, that the state has
undertaken care of regulation of economic process and maintenance of the fair
prices.
Attempts to adjust the prices in conditions of inflation and crisis by the
foreign trade politics have appeared insolvent. To the middle of the 30-th
years in many advanced countries with market economy the laws giving to the
state powers on influence on the prices, down to their freezing were
accepted, and the state measures on influence on the prices become a
component of state regulation of economy.
The state measures on price control can carry legislative, administrative and
judicial character. The laws, accepted by parliaments, create a legal basis
of the relations between the economic subjects, and also between them and
state in sphere money appearing. The complex of these laws represents the
price right entering by a component into civil law. On the basis of this
right the authorised state bodies carry out administrative activity on price
control. In case of infringement of the laws guilty can be involved in the
judicial responsibility.
Party fractions independent deputies bring in the administration bills of the
prices, as well as on other economic questions, to parliaments or government,
is direct measures on price control carry out the ministries of economy,
finance and central bank. In a number of the countries there are ministries
of trade, agriculture. They also render influence on money appearing. In many
countries at the end of 60 - in the 70-th years ministry advice under the
prices was created, they have is observant - consultative functions.
In each country at government or its separate bodies there are expert
committees, where the known experts, and advice, in which they meeting the
representatives of trade unions, unions of the peasants, dealers, businessmen
and representatives of state bodies enter; the committees are called to
advise state bodies on the prices and to express the opinion concerning the
price administration bills.
Let's consider state price control in a historical and logic sequence.
The supervision over the prices is the primary form of state activity in this
area. The business not only that from it began state price control; now
supervision over the prices forms the basis, on which all state actions in
this area are based. In supervision over the prices the central statistical
managements are engaged. The independent researches of movement of the prices
frequently will carry out the research centres of trade unions special
commissions under orders of a management of parties, international
organisations.
Overall objective of supervision behind the prices on the part of state
bodies and social partners - change of growth of cost of life for definition
of an index of annual nominal increase of wages and pensions, and also for
finding - out of influence of a rise in prices on production costs and
national competitiveness. The state can affect the prices, entering or
cancelling quantitative and customs restrictions in foreign trade, entering
in integration unions, changing the registration rate, varying the taxes,
carrying out a currency issue etc. The indirect influence on the prices is
rendered, in essence, by(with) all state regulating actions(shares), with
what the purposes they did not serve.
The state intervention in process money appearing is carried out by the
overestimate, authorised by governmental bodies, of production costs through
inclusion in the cost price overestimated amortisation and deductions in
other funds. As a result of it in the whole branches there is a situation,
when “ the costs prop up the price ”, i.e. settlement (instead of valid) the
production costs appear at all enterprises of branch as a result of the
privileges, announced by government, are so high, that the increase of the
prices becomes itself by the understood phenomenon, and as the privileges are
distributed to all branch, internal branches the competition in conditions of
a favourable conjuncture can not be a sufficient obstacle for a rise in
prices.
Direct state intervention in process money appearing is the state politics of
an establishment of the prices on the so-called excise goods.
The direct influence on formation of the prices is rendered with the state
grants. One of kinds of such grants - price - provides decrease of the prices
by special surcharges to the manufacturer or consumer.
The direct influence on the prices and leadership in the prices has a place
in branches, where the share of the state in consumption of the goods and
services is significant, for example, in military industries, in a number
down-branches of construction. The governmental bodies, being by the constant
buyers or customers of the certain kinds of the goods and services at private
concerns, establish under the arrangement with the partners “ the concrete
prices ”, which become then base prices for branch.
Effective means of price control is the tax to additional cost. The
manufacturers include this tax in the price of the goods or service, and
difference of change of the rates of this tax directly influences the prices.
The special direction of state economic politics is the state influence on
the foreign trade prices. State encouragement of export, clearing of the
exporters of the taxes (return of the taxes), and in some countries - the
export grants, granting of the soft loans and transport tariffs by an
essential image are reflected in conditions of a price competition in the
world market.
Establishment of the prices on mineral raw material extracted in state mines,
on the electric power from state power stations and railway, mail-telegraphic
tariffs - example of fixing of the prices on the goods and services state
sector.
These is artificial undercharges and the tariffs promote decrease of
production costs in a private enterprise and increase of national
competitiveness for the account is artificial of the lowered profitability or
deficiency of these objects of a state ownership.
Fixing of the prices or establishment of limits of their increase in public
sector - typical means of administrative economic regulation. It is seldom
applied and, as a rule, in conditions of a market economy is inefficient in
long-term and even intermediate term aspect. It is used more often in
exclusive cases as a means of easing of social intensity.
National bodies carry out the control above the prices for the certain kinds
of the goods.
Examples can serve an establishment of the prices on coal and black metals by
the European association of steel, annual establishment of procurement prices
on agricultural products in the European union, participation of the
countries in the international conferences, organisations on separate kinds
of the goods, tariffs for an airline traffic.
One of the difficulties of the questions of economic politics is the
management of inflation. In the world there are not enough of countries,
where in second half 20 centuries there was no inflation. Though it has come
on change of former illness of market economy, which has become obviously to
weaken, - cyclic crises.
The inflation is a depreciation of money, decrease of their buying power.
Usually inflation has in the basis not one, and some interconnected reasons,
and are shown it not only in increase of the prices - alongside with open, by
price inflation has a place latent, or suppressed, inflation shown first of
all in deficiency, deterioration of quality of the goods. In literal
translation with the Latin inflation means “swelling”, i.e. overflow of
channels of the manipulation by the superfluous paper money which has been
not supplied with the appropriate growth of commodity weight.
The reasons of inflation are diverse. Usually in a basis of inflation the
discrepancy of money demand and commodity weight - demand for the goods lays
and services exceeds the sizes goods turnover, that creates conditions that
the manufacturers and suppliers lifted the prices irrespective of a level of
costs. A disproportion between a supply and demand, excess of the incomes
above the consumer charges can be deviated by deficiency budjet (charges of
the state exceed the incomes); by excessive investment (volume of the
investments exceeds opportunities of economy); by outstripping growth of
wages in comparison with growth of manufacture and increase of productivity
of work; by an any establishment of state-set prices causing skews in size
and structure of demand; by other factors.
Let's refer as an example to a sharp aggravation of deficiency state budjet
in Russia in the second half of 80-th years (1985-1989 years - break between
profitable and account parts of the state budget has grown, with 18 up to 120
billion rub., or from 3,5 % up to 19 % to the national income of the
country). The increased deficiency has put huge harm to the money
manipulation, has urged on inflation. The unjustified money payments sharply
have worsened a situation in the consumer market.
The reasons of occurrence of inflation can be both internal, and external. To
the external reasons concern, in particular, reduction of receipts from
foreign trade, negative results of the foreign trade and payment balances.
The inflationary process in Russia strengthened fall of the prices in the
global market on fuel and colour metals making important clause of our
export, and also adverse conjuncture in the grain market in conditions of
significant import grain. In Hungary, which economy in the greater measure
depends on a condition of foreign economic relations, just the external
factor (deterioration of conditions of international trade, increase of the
external debt) played a hardly probable not determining role in amplification
inflationary processes. Thus the politics of escalating of export and
restraint of import reduced growth internal, wholesale and consumer costs.
The inflationary rise in prices alongside with the marked factors is caused
by the deeper reasons having basic character. Let's consider on an example of
Russia.
First, as a rule, one of sources of inflationary processes the deformation of
economic structure expressing in essential backlog of branches of consumer
sector at obvious super-changed development of branches of heavy industry
serves and is especial of military mechanical engineering.
Secondly, inability to overcome inflation is deviated by lacks of an economic
mechanism. In conditions of the centralised economy practically there was no
feedback, there were no effective economic levers, which were capable to
adjust a parity between money and commodity weight; as to administrative
terminators, they “worked” insufficiently effectively. In system of financial
planning state plan played a determining role, instead of Ministry of finance
and not the State Bank, which “worked” under it, supporting the scheduled
tasks financial and money resources without any restrictions.
Becoming traditional the politics of high rates of economic development
ignored real resource opportunities. To support rates, the capital
investments were constantly increased. In result the growth of consumption
restrained; the efficiency of capital investments fell that negatively had an
effect for economic growth and current manufacture. The means for new
technology did not suffice, and continuous growing of fund of accumulation
did not give desirable result. A problem died any more in amount of a capital
investment, and in their efficiency, structure to reconstruct which economic
mechanism prevented.
The contradiction and deficiencies deleted there are more means, and the
financial and budget terminators were very weak or practically were absent.
Unbalanced took place not only in the consumer market. Its basis - increasing
disproportion in the manufacture, strengthening financially - financial not
of balance, defects in system of planning, in the mechanism of the money
manipulation, in absence of antiinflationary regulation.
Examining the reasons of inflation, the economists will carry out distinction
between two its kinds - “ by inflation of the buyers “ (inflation of demand)
and “ by inflation of the sellers “ (inflation of costs). In effect, it is
two, as a rule, interconnected, but unequivalent reasons of inflation: one
lays on the part of demand (surplus of money resources at the buyers),
another - on the part of the offer (growth of industrial costs).
Depending on character of inflation and rates of increase of inflationary
processes distinguish the following types of inflation:
1) Slow inflation, for which the rather low rates of a rise in prices,
approximately up to ten or several percents per one year are characteristic.
Such inflation is inherent in the majority of the countries with the advanced
market economy, and it is not represented by something unusual. The average
level of inflation on the countries of the European community has made for
last years about 3 - 3,5%.
2) Galloping inflation is difficult in ruling.
The rate of its growth is expressed usually in two-place figures. Such high
rates in the 80-th years were observed, for example, in many countries of
Latin America, some countries of Southern Asia. The galloping rise in prices
shows itself unequally and has not the strictly designated quantitative
parameters. The inflationary processes depend on a level of development of
the country, social economic structure unsimilar regulation of price
processes. In the period after war - the period of capitalism has gone
through two large waves of inflation: at transition from military economy of
a market type (1945-1952) and under influence “ of petroleum shocks ”, is
sharp shocked all structure of the world and internal prices (1974-1981). But
it was possible to western countries to stop inflationary processes, using
various methods of antiinflationary regulation. For the small countries, for
example of Sweden, it was important to avoid imported inflation, for what the
increase of the prices of national currency was used. Other countries
resorted to methods of restraint of inflation by means of money-credit
politics.
3) The greatest danger represents super-inflation. Its conditional boundary -
monthly (within three-four months) rise in prices more than 50%, and annual
will be expressed four numbers in figures. The feature super-inflation that
it appears practically unguided; the usual functional interrelations and
habitual levers of management of the prices do not work. On complete power
the printed machine tool works, the gamble develops mad. Manufacture will be
disorganised. To stop or to brake super-inflation it is necessary to resort
to extreme measures. But there is no unequivocal representation about that,
how to struggle with super-inflation. The rather inconsistent recipes are
assumed various, quite often.
To outstrip inevitable, increase, expected by all, of the prices, the owners
of “hot” money aspire as soon as possible gets rid of them. In result is
developed great demand; those goods are bought up first of all which can
serve a means of partial preservation of the savings (real estate, subjects
of art, precious metals). The people work under pressure “inflationary crisis
”, and it grow a rise in prices, and the inflation begins to feed itself.
Classical example super-inflation - conditions which has been usual in
Germany and a number of other countries after the First World War. In Germany
in 1923 the level of a rise in prices was estimated 10 numbers and 12 numbers
by numbers; the wages should be spent immediately, for within day of the
price on products raised repeatedly.
The process of inflation is inconsistent. On the one hand, the money profits
are increased, the capital investments extend, and with another - the rise in
prices conducts to depreciation of the unused capital. Win not everything,
and, first of all strong firms having the modern equipment, perfect
organisation of manufacture. In the best rule(situation) there are social
groups living on the not fixed incomes, if their nominal incomes will grow by
rate overtaking a rise in prices.
From inflation the people who take money on credit can win, if not is
stipulated, that percent for the credit should take into account an
inflationary rise in prices.
But whichever there were positive functions of inflation, leaving from under
the control and even remaining rather weak, adjusted, the inflation renders
on a course of economic development the whole complex especially of negative
phenomena.
To negative consequences of inflationary processes concern:
- Decrease of the real incomes of the population;
- Depreciation of the savings of the population (the increase of percents on
the contributions, as a rule, does not compensate fall of the real sizes of
the savings);
- The loss at the manufacturers of interest in creation of the qualitative
goods (is increased release of the goods of poor quality, manufacture of the
rather cheap goods) is reduced;
- Restriction of sale of agricultural products in city by the rural
manufacturers by virtue of fall of interest, in expectation of increase of
the prices on the foodstuffs;
- Deterioration of conditions of life mainly at the representatives of social
groups with the firm incomes (pensioners serving, students, which incomes are
formed for the account state budget);
- Easing positions of imperious structures (is reduced trust to the programs
and measures planned and carried out government).
The management of inflation represents a major problem money-credit and in
the whole economic politics. The ways of management are ambiguous, are
inconsistent on the consequences. The range of parameters for realisation of
such politics can be rather narrow: on the one hand, it is required to
constrain growth of an inflationary spiral, and with another - to support
stimulus of manufacture to create conditions for saturation of the market by
the goods.
The management of inflation assumes use of the complex measures assisting in
a certain measure to combine an insignificant rise in prices with
stabilisation of the incomes. The tools of management of process differ
depending on character and rate of inflation, features of economic
conditions, specificity of an economic mechanism of the different countries.
For antiinflationary regulation two are used such as economic politics:
1) Politics directed on reduction of budget deficiency, restriction of credit
expansion, restraint of money issue. In conformity with material the recipes
apply targets - regulation of rate of a gain of money weight in the certain
limits - according to rate of growth of a total national product
2) Politics of price control and incomes having by the purpose to co-ordinate
growth of earnings with a rise in prices. One of means serves index of the
incomes determined by a level of a minimum conditions of life or a standard
consumer basket and connected with dynamics of an index of the prices. For
restraint of the undesirable phenomena the limits of increase or freezing of
wages can be established, to be limited distribution of the credits etc.
The influence on inflationary process in conditions of a sharp rise in prices
requires special measures. So, for elimination of consequences “ of a
petroleum shock ”, struck on economy of USA in second half of 70-th years,
the registration rates were increased, the requirements to the sizes of
reserve funds are amplified, the system of the taxation is stipulated. To
lower rates of an inflationary rise in prices it was possible not at once:
from 13-14 of % in 1979 they have decreased to 4 % after about three years -
in 1982.
As the experience testifies, to stop inflation with the help of one
organisational measures rather difficulty if not to tell it is impossible.
The structural reform directed on overcoming of disproportion’s, that has
arisen in economy is necessary for this purpose.
The concrete methods of restraint of inflation, “dose” and sequence of
application of means, attracted for treatment, depend on statement of the
correct diagnosis. To put the diagnosis - means, to determine character of
inflation, to allocate the factors, basic and connected to them, which makes
the growth of inflationary processes. In this case it is not necessary to
expect for any ready circuits, and series of extreme measures to finish with
inflation. Each inflation is specific and assumes application of such
recipes, which correspond to character and depth of “disease”.
Constant consequence in particular of inflationary process is the
unemployment. By virtue of importance of this problem the state accepts the
special measures for regulation of the market of work.
The market of work - important sphere economic and social - political life
of a society. In the market of work labour receives an estimation cost, the
conditions of its employment, including size of wages, working conditions,
opportunity of reception of education, professional growth, guarantee of
employment etc are defined. The market of work reflects the basic tendencies
in changes of employment, its(her) basic structures (branch, vocational,
demographic), i.e. in a public division of labour, mobility of a labour,
scales and changes of unemployment.
The unemployment is a social economic phenomenon, at which the part of a
labour (economically of active population) is not engaged in manufacture of
the goods and services. The unemployed alongside with engaged form a labour
of the country. In real economic life the unemployment acts as excess of a
labour above demand for it(her). To the unemployed, according to statistics
of many advanced countries, the persons who have been not engaged on the
moment of realisation of interrogation about the status of their employment,
undertaking attempts concern to find work within the previous four weeks and
registered on labour exchange.
Heavy for the countries of West were 30 years of our century. In USA the rate
of unemployment has reached 25%. The diagram showing the dynamics of a rate
of unemployment in USA for 100 years is rather curious (1890-1990).
If the share of the unemployed makes 1-3 % in general army of work, not it is
accepted to count employment insignificant. Especially dangerous in social
sense not employment (absence of work within 40 weeks and more) is long
chronic.
It is important to emphasise, that to the unemployed usually carry not only
dismissed on the various reasons, but also persons voluntary left works and
undertaking attempt to find new. The structure of unemployment for its
reasons includes four basic categories of a labour:
1) Lost work as a result of dismissal;
2) Voluntary left work;
3) Come on the market of work after a break;
4) For the first time come on the market of work.
The parity of these categories depends, first of all, on a phase of a
business cycle.
The monthly average rate of unemployment within the given year pays off under
the formula:
UE*100 of %
Lue = ------------------
LFc,
Where Lue - level (norm) of unemployment, %; UE - monthly average number of
the unemployed; LFc - number of a civil labour.
There are some concepts treating a phenomenon of unemployment. In Mark’s of
the theory it usually connect to process of accumulation of the capital, at
which the requirement for alive work (variable capital) is increased slower,
than in machines, equipment (constant capital). In western economic science
the point of view dominates, according to which the unemployment in the basis
reflects an economic feasibility of use of resources, just as, say degree of
loading of capacities reflects expediency and efficiency of use of a fixed
capital. A so-called natural rate of unemployment reflecting structural
disproportion in the market of work (between structure of a supply and demand
of a labour on qualification, by demographic and other criteria). To natural
unemployment carry also so-called friction unemployment connected mainly to
voluntary transition of the workers from one work on another and to seasonal
fluctuations in demand for a labour.
In USA in the 60-th years as a natural rate of unemployment the parameter in
4,3 %, in 70-th - already 6,6 %, in 80-th - about 7% was considered. The
excess of unemployment above a natural level is determined in the basic
cyclic factor, i.e. condition of a conjuncture in the country.
Changes of unemployment is influenced, besides demographic factors, with
changes in structure of economy, condition of foreign trade and export of the
capital, scales of the military charges, economic and social politics of the
state.
Owing to variety of internal regulators of the market of a labour, and also
by virtue of social importance of its effective functioning the market of
work requires the qualified regulation.
It is possible to allocate four basic directions of state regulation of the
market of work. First, it is the programs on stimulation of growth of
employment and increase of number of workplaces in public sector, secondly,
programs directed on preparation and retraining of a labour, and, thirdly,
program of assistance to hiring of a labour. Besides the government accepts
the programs on social insurance of unemployment, i.e. allocates means for
the grants with the unemployed.
Within the framework of this program in USA, for example, in after war period
- hundred thousand workplaces in public sector (in sphere of public services
- education, health services, municipal services, and also in construction of
public buildings and structures and in remaking works) were created. With the
help of these programs the rate of unemployment at the end of the 70-th years
was artificial is underestimated on 0,8 percentage items.
The more and more important meaning gets state assistance to hiring. So,
service of giving jobs in USA having more of 2500 local agencies (labour
exchanges), is engaged in registration of the unemployed, tries to find by it
vacancies, will carry out testing the applicants for work for definition of
their qualification.
The listed directions do not settle all measures of influence of the state on
the market of work. Alongside with them there is a complex of measures of
indirect regulation of a labour: tax, money-credit and amortisation politics
of government. Besides the considerable influence on the market of work
renders also legislation - about social maintenance, about the labour
relations, about the equal civil rights etc.
The measures of indirect regulation of the market of a labour simultaneously
are also measures economic of regulation and influence a conjuncture in the
country.
The special place in system of regulation of the market of work is occupied
with labour exchange (service of employment, service to assistance to
hiring), being one of the important structures of a market economic
mechanism. It represents special establishment, which is carrying out
intermediary functions in the market of a labour. In the majority of the
countries of labour exchange are state and carry out the activity under the
direction of the ministry of work or body, similar to it(him). At the same
time in the market of work alongside with state services of employment the
large number of private intermediate firms functions, the efficiency of which
activity is very high.
The basic directions of activity of labour exchanges are:
1) Registration of the unemployed;
2) Registration of vacant places;
3) Giving jobs to the unemployed and other persons wishing to get a job;
4) Study of a conjuncture of the market of work and granting of the
information about it(her);
5) Testing the persons wishing to offer work;
6) Professional orientation and professional retraining of the unemployed;
7) Payment of the grants.
The majority of the economists believe, that the problem of unemployment and
other disproportion in the market of work can be softened only with the help
of a combination of various means - stimulation of economic growth, reduction
of working week, creation of an effective system of retraining of the staff.
Thus, the modern state regulation of the market of work represents a complex
of economic, administrative, organisational and other measures.
The existing nowadays system of state regulation of economy has developed not
at once. During the development it has passed some stages:
1) Creation of general favourable conditions for reproduction of the private
capital; a concentration of efforts of the state on development of the
labour, tax, trade, social legislation, customs politics, on maintenance of
stability of money. Construction and purchase of objects in raw and
infrastuctural branches.
2) The unmatched among them actions of an anticrisis and structural
orientation, attempt to influence employment and prices.
3) Experiments with use of money-credit and budget means of regulation of
economy. A wave of a privatisation of objects of a state ownership.
4) Transition in a number of the countries to branch and regional
intermediate term programming; attempts to increase effectiveness of state
regulation of economy by study of compatibility and interchangeability of
tools of regulation, definition of their efficiency.
5) Realisation in the increasing number of the advanced countries of nation-
wide intermediate term programming in a combination to development long-term
perspective ways. More and more address, dosing and complex use of tools of
regulation.
6) Measure as agreed of nation-wide intermediate term programs at an
interstate level in framework integration of associations; steps in a
direction national of planning.
On scales, the tools and efficiency of state regulation of economy decisive
influence rendered tasks rising before economy of the separate countries,
material opportunities of the states reflected in a share to them of a total
internal product and in the absolute sizes of means, which it is ready to use
on state regulation of economy accrued experience and successes in scientific
development of problems of state economic politics in conditions of a market
economy.
The mechanism of state regulation of economy is constantly improved,
irrespective of, the governments on principles of economic politics are
guided or are inclined to use more rigid budget tools of regulation. In
modern conditions the practice of state regulation of economy has appeared
rather productive to not admit general crises and social - dangerous of
scales of unemployment.
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Moscow 1995.
3) Social market economy. The German way. Chaints Lampert. Publishing house
“Business”. Moscow 1994.
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“Somintek”. Moscow 1992.
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