Actuality of fundamental socioeconomic researches (about Professor A.P. Bychkov's legasy)
The legacy of A.P. Bychkov is large and diverse and it must he learnt and developed. Bychkov was the first in the national science who used a broadside socioeconomic approach to the analysis of phenomena and principles of economic life. He investigated the most important institutional changes in the world market economy as a result of which the economy gets the characteristics of a social market system In the center of Bychkov's economic doctrines there is a theory of property relations. His merit is in the proving the following fact - in economic sense property relations exist when they are realized in a real economic life. Rejecting extreme viewpoints Bychkov thought that a shift to a market economy and capitalism was conditioned by the sheer course of history and it was inevitable in our country. But it must be capitalism with a human face. Russia is falling behind developed countries its labour productivity is 4-5 times less than theirs. Bychkov supposed that to overcome this underrun it was necessary to invest budge funds and income of all branches into innovative development. He offered to create financial and social motivations of innovations on all stages of reproduction. The major concern of innovative development of the country <i>must be a creator of all innovations - a human being.</i>