Движение к ноономике и неолиберальный барьер на пути технологической модернизации

Abstract

The author raises fundamental questions related to the escalation of crisis phenomena in the economic, social and environmental spheres, which is the case for the entire modern human civilization. A social system based on the criteria of economic rationality, on the one hand, provides significant technological progress, but, on the other, fails to deal with the negative consequences of said progress using the latest technologies contrary to the interests of human development. The currently dominant neoliberal economy subjects production to the criterion of economic benefit, and in pursuit of profit growth and expansion of sales markets it leads to a mindless increase in production volumes and the exploitation of irreplaceable natural resources. Moreover, relying on the latest technologies, it develops the most sophisticated methods of manipulating and imposing simulated needs on the consumer, wasting the Earth’s resources to provide the consumer with illusory benefits that supposedly would satisfy these needs. With such a background, social contradictions and global economic conflicts are growing, escalating the threat of the use of mass destruction weapons. At the same time, modern knowledge-intensive technologies create an opportunity to overcome these issues. They ensure the satisfaction of human needs with decreasing costs of material resources. A high level of production knowledge-intensivity suggests an extended need for creative work, while forming a “cultural man”, turning consumer goods from the purpose of production only into means of providing conditions for the development of human creative abilities. However, the consistent implementation of these options requires abandoning the neoliberal paradigm of economic growth. The transition to other non-economic criteria of development, and, ultimately, the transition to noonomy − a non-economic way of ensuring human needs – requires a consistent, step-by-step development strategy. For our country the first stages of implementation of this strategy may be reflected in the achievement of technological sovereignty based on the reindustrialization of the economy based on the latest technologies. The means to achieving this stage are an active industrial policy and the use of methods of planned regulation of the market economy.