CONSUMER WORTH AS A SYSTEM

Consumer worth is a system of relations between people and things regarding the correspondence of endowing things with certain functional properties (production) to their socially determined extraction (consumption). Consumer worth in a post-industrial society serves as an effective tool for determining the behavior of economic entities - people and their organizations - in the coordinates of the commodity economy, their orientation on the production of value on the principles of abstract equivalence, combinatorics and virtual calculus. Creation of new functional properties of things as a consumer values, their integration into society and building society for them pushes the boundaries of the commodity form of economy.

The Moral Registers of Banqueting in Contemporary China

Chinese feasting encompasses everything from life-cycle celebrations to the indulgences of corrupt officials. Although woven into the commodity economy, banqueting also creates and solidifies social relationships, providing a space where different moral economies converge. This article explores the moral economies that intersect in Chinese banqueting as well as the differing moral registers people use to understand it. Proper form in banqueting is essential to being a cultured person and all banqueting gathers meaning through analogy to the commensal sharing at the heart of the family and ritual economy. Lavish official banqueting may be condemned in popular and state discourse as corrupt; yet officials may claim banqueting is necessary work that creates social connections which help their localities. Banquet inflation among ordinary people is also subject to contradictory moral evaluations. While the recent crackdown on official corruption stigmatises banquet indulgence, it may reinforce ordinary people’s desire to utilise banquets as one of their only tools to influence those with relatively more power.

Formation of the Green Segment of the National Financial Market: Experience of Countries with a Significant Share of the Commodity Economy

The presented study examines the experience of integration of sustainable development principles into the national strategies of countries with a significant share of the commodity economy.Aim. The study aims to generalize the experience of countries in terms of measures aimed at the formation of conditions for the development of the green segment of the national financial market.Tasks. The authors compare initiatives in the field of sustainable development and green investment implemented by different countries and their approaches to the formation and development of the green segment of the national financial market.Methods. This study uses general scientific methods of cognition to examine the specific features of the approach to the funding of sustainable development and green economic growth implemented by the countries.Results. The authors examine the issues of the integration of sustainable development principles into national strategies and policies through the example of five countries. The following aspects are analyzed: comparison of the key indicators of socio-economic development; actions taken to reorientate the commodity economy; implemented strategies for the formation of the green segment of the economy; the achieved results. The analysis generalizes the countries’ approaches to the reorientation of economic entities toward sustainable activities; describes the selected directions for the formation of funding sources for sustainable activities and national solutions in financial market regulation; systematizes market tools for the funding of green investment and determines the configuration of the green segment of the national financial market in the examined countries.Conclusions. The examined experience of several countries shows that the government plays an important role in the formation of the green segment of the national financial market, and there is a variety of approaches to sustainable development and the model of green economic growth based on it. The countries have different priorities, including social and environmental factors on the national agenda. A wide range of tools are used to reorientate toward sustainable activities, but the key problem for all countries lies in the formation of funding sources for sustainable activities. The countries are essentially reformatting the financial landscape, attempting to transfer the burden of funding of economic development from the government to the market.

Гибриды моркови для товарного производства

Представлены материалы по гибридам моркови столовой отечественной селекции, отвечающие современным требованиям товарного производства и конкурентоспособные с зарубежными аналогами: F1 Алтаир, F1 Бейби и др. Гибрид F1 Бейби в 20172018 годах проходил производственные испытания в крупнейшем овощеводческом товарном хозяйстве ЗАО Куликово (Дмитровский район Московской области) на площади 10 га и показал высокий результат по урожайности и товарности.There are presented materials on carrots hybrids of domestic breeding that meet modern requirements of commodity production and are competitive with foreign analogues: F1 Altair, F1 Beibi and others. Hybrid F1 Beibi in 20172018 passed production tests in the largest vegetablegrowing commodity economy of CJSC Kulikovo (Dmitrovo district of the Moscow region) on the area of 10 ha and showed high result on productivity and marketability.