TO THE ISSUE ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF THE SOCIAL ECONOMY THEORY
The author devoted this article to questions of the theory of evolution of social economy, opened the subject of social economy, object of social economy, outlined the circle of the problems considered within social economy and specified that now the full concept and theoretical model of social economy is not created yet and also there is obvious insufficiency of publications on a social perspective. The concept of social economy has fragmentary character, and its retrospective finds the reflection in various currents and schools of a sociological and economic thought. The subject field of economic sociology and social economy in many respects coincides, but in article the author revealed essential distinctions. He designated three directions as methodological fundamentals of «social economy». Methodological bases of the concept of «social economy» closely connect with the concept of «welfare economics». The institutional direction made the big contribution to formation of the concept of «social economy», in particular the merit of the G. Becker's theory according to which without economic justification or calculation any social problem is not resolved today, whether it is a question of marriage or the child's birth, of investments into the human capital or use of free time. Concepts of «information economy», «post-industrial economy», «new economy» enrich and expand a subject of social economy. Now the ideas of social economy find the reflection in concepts of the social state and also in concepts of social responsibility, social partnership, in the ideas of social investment, etc. The practical value of article consists in that the reasonable methodology of social economy can serve as a certain concept of transformation of the Russian economy.