РОЛЬ ІНФРАСТРУКТУРИ В РОЗВИТКУ ЕКОНОМІЧНИХ СИСТЕМ

Abstract

Economic systems by their nature are complex objects of study, as their development depends on a significant number of factors, conditions for the functioning of their individual components, the peculiarities of the environment in which such systems develop. An important role in the development of such systems is played by their infrastructure, which is an integral part of the functioning of any system and, thus, also affects its development. The uniqueness of the infrastructure of the economic system is that its functioning is objective, necessary, and the infrastructure itself can often be considered as a separate integrated object of study, which includes a large number of subsystems of different nature.Within the article, the role of infrastructure in the development of economic systems is examined. This was done on the basis of studying the essence of the category "infrastructure", which was implemented through a thorough analysis of existing in the scientific literature conceptual approaches to the content of this definition. Systematization of such approaches, their analysis allowed to state the importance of infrastructure for the development of economic systems and the complexity of its study. Approaches to the use of the category "infrastructure" ineconomic research were also singled out, namely: consideration of infrastructure in the context of the functioning of another economic system; consideration of infrastructure in the context of the study of certain economic processes and areas that are common to sectors of the national economy; consideration of certain types of infrastructure in the context of research of other economic systems; consideration of infrastructure within separate spatial economic systems. Consideration of the essence of the category "infrastructure" allowed to distinguish it from the definition of "infrastructure" and point out two approaches to its consideration: static (infrastructure is a set of existing infrastructure that affects the development of certain types of economicsystems) and dynamic (process) formation of conditions for the development of certain types of infrastructure within the functioning of economic systems)