The State in Economics: The Polarity of Views and the Modern Agenda

The subject of the research is the role of the state in economics in the polar coordinate system «neoliberalism – dirigisme» with the allocation of its system–forming essence in the modern era. The purpose of the work is to prove the inadequacy of a deliberate ideologically determined approach to assessing the state in economics from the point of view of minimizing its importance and the doctrine of «intervention – non–interference», which generate intellectual constructions in economics, economic models and analytical recommendations that are out of touch with life. The methodology of this research consists of theories of the state in economics, «systemic economics» and a concept based on the attitude towards the state as the system-forming basis of modern development. The main result of the research is to establish that the modern agenda in economics requires a systematic review of the development process of the state, rejecting the use of inappropriate terms and models based on them when it intervenes or does not interfere in market relations. This substantiates the need to eliminate the opposition between the state and the market in order to overcome the most important methodological problem of economic knowledge and obtain the most adequate development models and management tools for the economy and society. It is concluded that the Wagner law partiallyconfirms the effect of the Russian economy, which describes the expansion of the public sector in a situation in which the ratio between its share and the optimal rate of GDP growth is not an unshakable pattern, as well as the orientation of economic policy towards its search or accounting.

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