Abstract
The object of research is modern ideas about the price scale and their inconsistency with the tasks of reforming the economic foundations of the post-Soviet society. One of the most problematic places of this object is the ideas that are ingrained at the level of the educational and scientific literature, either not having real grounds, or scholastic in nature. At the level of macroeconomic characteristics of the post-Soviet economy, this is shown in the fact that the classical idea of equal wages for equal work is not being realized. During the research, scientific methods of theoretical analysis, comparison and generalization, induction and deduction were used. Through these methods, the problem of the price scale from the highly specialized and strictly theoretical state is transferred into the plane of one of the fundamental categories of the economic structure of society. This issue has such tangible impact on the parameters of the social and economic life of modern society that each country shapes its understanding of the fundamentals of the national price scale. The post-war experience of the developed countries of Western Europe clearly shows that the post-Soviet republics have a clear positive example in this matter. Based on international experience and the provisions of international conventions, the post-Soviet republics need to derive the problem of the real price scale at the level of state policy in the field of income and wages. This can be another direction for the healthy integration of post-Soviet societies into the world space. The achieved qualitative result is determined by the following: the strengthening of the purchasing power of national money in the industrial countries actually went through the transformation of the price of labor into the economic basis of the price scale. Cooperation of the state and trade unions allows to bring under this process and the corresponding regulatory and legal basis. Thus, the functioning of the price scale ceases to be a spontaneous process.
Highlights
The large-scale and substantive changes in the organization of various aspects of the functioning of society in the post-Soviet space over the past quarter-century have radically changed everyday realities and their perceptions
If gold is no longer a monetary commodity and its price no longer determines the initial quantitative parameters of measuring and measuring the value of goods, what is the basis for the price scale in the modern economy? Many authors bypass this issue, at best limited to the thesis that in modern conditions, the price scale is spontaneous [7]. There are such opinions: – the price scale serves as a means of measuring and expressing the prices of goods and services with the help of a state legislative act that establishes a certain monetary unit [8]; – the price scale is determined by the state [9]
What leads to state arbitrariness in the issue of the fundamental categories of the economic structure of society is well known from the relatively recent socioeconomic history of the former USSR and other countries of the socialist camp. All this is clearly not enough, since they testify to the deep-seated underestimation of the fundamental influence that the price scale has on the parameters of the social and economic life of modern society
Summary
The large-scale and substantive changes in the organization of various aspects of the functioning of society in the post-Soviet space over the past quarter-century have radically changed everyday realities and their perceptions. One of them is the «price scale» category. In the teaching of economic disciplines, in particular, such issues as the functions of money, elements of the national monetary system, a certain place in this category is still given. In this case, this category is initially limited to the use of money as a measuring instrument and a measure of the value of goods, services, works, so a more detailed study of this issue is relevant
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