ECONOMIC POWER AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION
The article discusses the relationship between economic power and income distribution. Based on the analysis of current scientific approaches 18 Экономика. Труд. Занятость to the explanation of the phenomenon of power, the authoress concludes that fundamentals of the study of this problem within the framework of the neoclassical theory are lacking, and supports that it is necessary to analyze the essence of the basic institutions of society, such as property, capital, labor. The authoress examines the current forms of capital that shape the asymmetrical nature of the relationship between capital and labor as power resources of capital, including in the conditions of transitional economy. The authoress analyzes the dynamics of wage rate of hired labor in relation to social standards as a manifestation of economic power of capital, the specific nature of differentiation of wages in the Russian economy, its trends, and draws a conclusion about the predominant