The article proves the need for a critical revision of concepts and ideas dominating today in the scientific community about the nature and tendencies of the world economy’s evolution due to apparent disparity between theoretical models of “economics” and the real phenomena of the contemporary world.

The article considers the main problems of prices in modern Russia, it reveals the most important reasons for the current difficult situation and the associated threat of social destabilization. A way out of this situation in the sphere of prices the authors see in the elaboration of an effective public price policy and suggest main directions and forms of its realization.

The article analyses the Russian market of guarantee securities for small and medium-size enterprises. Its condition is characterized by inertia, which greatly restrains the development of small business. The formation of national warranty system the author links to the implementation of specific actions of public authorities within their powers.

The article describes and systematises public needs for compliance with which the effectiveness of public policy is evaluated.

The article considers one of the most important aspects of the many-sided activities of Zemstvo (County) agencies in pre-Soviet Russia - economic assistance to farmers, the experience of which has not lost its relevance these days. That assistance included activities on improving the culture of agrarian production, the productivity of peasant labour, the yield of the soil, the promotion of peasant cooperatives, the development of Handicrafts in villages and suburbs, the disaster management in the village (crop failures, famine, dispossession of peasants).

The purpose of this article is the publication of results of the empirical analysis of money demand in modern Russia. For that end a theoretical basis and functional form of the money demand equation with the data for its evaluation were chosen, the best composition of the regressors in the equation was identified and econometric methodology was formulated. Also some tests for stationarity and cointegration of variables were made, error correction model was estimated as well as the stability of the demand for money function was tested.

The article examines the socio-economic impacts of an uncontrolled growth of abnormal earnings. It introduces the concept of abnormal earnings as an income, the growth of which is not connected with the increase in production of sold and consumed products, as well as income from inconsumable products. The author argues that the uncontrolled growth of abnormal earnings has become one of the objective reasons of socio-economic and political collapse of the administrative command economy. It may cause also the profound socio-economic crises in countries with market economy.

The article examines the historical experience of the chambers of Commerce of Germany and Russia as an institution that promotes economic ties, in the context of introduction of the West’s anti-Russian economic sanctions. The author believes that in the conditions of narrowing of opportunities at the international level for the preservation and development of economic relations it is expedient to place reliance not on Central business associations (Federal Association of German industry (BDI), where the tone is set by the largest enterprises and a strong military-industrial complex, but upon the “grass-roots” business associations - regional and local German and Russian chambers of Commerce and their Central organization.

The author considers actions so relevant in modern conditions of sanctions and embargoes by Western countries for the importation and exportation of agricultural products, raw materials and food in our country, i. e. foreign trade aspect of food security of Russia. At the same time the author examines to what extent Russian export to those countries decreased.

The article reveals the notions of social tension, conflictogenity and the specifics of socio-economic conflictogenity of society. Socio-economic conflictogenity represents an intermediate link from the stable state of society to evolving social conflicts. The article identifies the groups of signs and provides a general approach to the assessment of the socio-economic conflictogenity of society.

The author considers the essence and structure of the family budget, its place and role in modern society. Identifying key parameters and key positions in the formation of the family budget allowed to formulate recommendations for the generation of additional income ensuring financial security of the family.

The article discusses the fundamentals of social entrepreneurship origin; the evolution of this type of entrepreneurial activity in different historical periods and some particulars in stages of its development are presented.