THE THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL BASICS OF SPACE-TIME MODELLING OF SOCIOECONOMIC INTER-TEMPORAL CHANGES
Background. This article is devoted to problems of the methodological and theoretical content of research and space-time modeling of socioeconomic processes. Taking into account a scientific readiness of separate aspects of the declared subject an attempt of justification of the original conceptual approach relying on synthesis of already available theoretical constructions, and theoretical and methodological inventory of tools of social and economic modeling was made. Materials and methods. The main theoretical and methodological innovation consists in use of the concept "chronotope" - the interdisciplinary category designating unity of time and space as the tool of the analysis and modeling of social and economic dynamics. The productivity explanation in space-time modeling of socioeconomic inter-temporal changes of conceptual approaches is offered: the world-systems analysis, the theory of a conjuncture, the model of K-waves, the path dependence theory, and theories of cumulative uneven regional growth. Results. Using of the concept "chronotope" allowed to offer original interpretation and definition of the category "economic space" as the ordered set of regions of different levels of economic development and various "history depths" - hierarchies of chronotopes, substantially to add process of modeling of socioeconomic dynamics with spatial-temporal parameters. Conclusions. The received results of research can be applied in the analysis and scientific and practical processing of factual, statistical and historical socioeconomic material when studying spatial-temporal dynamics of economic systems, including the Russian economy and its regions.