MAIN APPROACHES TO DEFINITION "ECONOMIC SECURITY" AND "ECONOMIC SECURITY OF THE STATE"
In article author made the analysis of main treatments of the category «economic security». Each group of scientists concentrates attention on certain processes. Necessity to ensure the safety mankind felt constantly. However the term «economic security» began to be used only in the period of the great depression, and also then it didn't mean «economic security» allocation in separate independent economic category. In article author gave definitions of economic security not only of the number of scientists-economists, but also those which contain in official documents: The concept of national security of the Russian Federation, the act of the Russian Federation «About safety», Strategy of national security of the Russian Federation till 2020 and others. Relevance and necessity of providing economic security authors reflected in article. Now it gets a huge strategic importance both from a position of activity of separately taken enterprise, and in more global scales - functioning of regions and states. Economic security is the part of national security which closely interconnects with its other components and is a basis of providing such elements as military, political, social, ecological, technological, information and others. Also in article authors allocated basic elements of economic security which treats financial and credit, inflationary, production and technological, external economic and others. Necessity of providing economic security both at micro, and at macrolevel amplifies in connection with development of globalization and integration processes. The main indicators and criteria of economic security which allow to define threats of economic security, to be prepared for their decrease authors also listed in article.