Finance - Energy Balance
This study addresses the laws and rules of the functioning of contemporary socio-economic systems. Major emphasis is placed on energy as the main component of the existence and development of systems. More accurate notions of commodity and money are given in terms of philosophy. A scheme of the finance-energy balance of a country, a union, a system has been proposed and substantiated. The study analyzes the laws of monetary circulation. The following new notions are introduced: the foodenergy budget, based on the well-known notion of energy budget, and the energy for development, as a sum of energy budget and food-energy budget.