МІЖДИСЦИПЛІНАРНІ ЗВ’ЯЗКИ ЕКОНОМІЧНОЇ НАУКИ: СВІТОВА ТА УКРАЇНСЬКА ПРАКТИКА

Abstract

The article considers a problem that has significant theoretical and applied significance for understanding the economy as a field of knowledge without which it is difficult to imagine the existence of modern human community. This is due to the comprehensive role of economic activity for social reproduction. It is from this angle that the interdisciplinary links between economics and related social and behavioral sciences are explored. The purpose of the study is to compare the world and Ukrainian practice of identifying interdisciplinary links of the economy. The following tasks have been formulated for her implementation: revealing the essence of interdisciplinary ties; characteristics of ways of interdisciplinary connections of economic science; identification of distinctive and common features of world and Ukrainian practice of presenting the interdisciplinarity of the economy. Given that behavioral economics has a fairly strong tradition in foreign scientific thought, analyzed of world and Ukrainian practice of identifying interdisciplinary links of economics with psychology, political science, sociology and other sciences. This is the scientific novelty of the study. It was found that the formation of behavioral economics was largely due to the implementation of the theoretical apparatus of psychology in the process of managerial decision-making, which more adequately than the cognitive tools of neoclassical theory, characterizes the behavior of individuals in changing environments. A comparative analysis of world and Ukrainian practice in determining the interdisciplinary links of the economy shows some differences between them. Foreign scholars, first, focus on the behavioral component of economics as a social and behavioral science. Secondly, to this field of knowledge in addition to economics, political science, psychology, sociology, they also include anthropology together with archeology, management and public administration. Third, foreign interdisciplinary discourse is based on a bibliometric approach that favors quantitative indicators of interdisciplinarity. Ukrainian practice of interdisciplinary economic ties is characterized by increased attention to social aspects that should be taken care of by economic, political and sociological science. World and Ukrainian practice is united by a common research field related to identifying trends and determining forecasts of social development. Prospects for further scientific research in this area are outlined.