"Economic Constitution" and Scientific and Technological Progress
A fuller identification of regular links of the “economic constitutions” standards and scientific and technological progress is necessary for the focused improvement of modern states’ basic laws. The study of the development of “economic constitutions” is required for a more adequate constitutionalisation of the society’s technological achievements, including those capable to protect human rights and freedom from new challenges and threats. The identification of regular links between the norms of “economic constitutions” and waves of innovation is the basic aim of this research. It is important to get the image of the future tendency of “economic constitutions” considering the potential of innovative economy of XXI century. The presented cross-disciplinary research offers a fundamentally new classification criterion of “economic constitutions” for legal science - economic structure. A consecutive historic and theoretical research of “economic constitutions” is conducted in conjunction with scientific and technological progress; the potential of “economic constitutions” modernization is revealed. Comprehensive use of historical, logical, systematic, dogmatic, comparative and other methods of scientific knowledge allowed determining trends and predicting a further tendency of “economic constitution” development in conjunction with the dominant technologies. The summary of the interrelated progress of “economic constitutions” and waves of innovation are made. As a criterion to classify the generations of “economic constitutions” here is proposed a fundamentally new criterion for jurisprudence - social and economic phenomenon “waves of innovation” reflecting the consistent technical level of its productions. The revolutionary significance of information technologies in the modern world is fully understood by the author. Yet the article is based on the analysis of historical and modern texts of constitutions, which now set rather conservative approach to the “information revolution”. The results of research demonstrate that the synthesis of achievements of modern science and the technologies (nuclear power engineering, global internet, biotechnologies etc.) are gradually penetrating into the norms of “economic constitutions” and require an adequate constitutionalisation.