Participation of State Statistics Resources in the Formation of Strategic Planning Documents

Various forms of Rosstat's participation in the development of the strategic planning system are shown and the forms of its possible participation as it develops are suggested. Situations that arise in the process of developing strategic planning documents at various levels are identified and described, the negative consequences of which cannot be overcome without improving the methodology and methodology of statistics and the development of information technologies. The influence of state programs on the development of statistical observation methodology, as well as on the conceptual aspects and development of classification and coding systems is shown. Some of the proposals for the development of methodological support for statistics may be very timely for the purposes of information support for strategic planning, given the requirements put forward by the government of the Russian Federation for the integration of strategic planning documents at various levels.

Water Resources and the Problem of Externalities

When managing water resources as an integral part of urban management, unforeseen situations, particularly related to the occurrence of side effects (externalities), often arise. Such effects aggravate the environmental situation and exacerbate global challenges to humanity in the field of water supply and rational use of water resources, including through the introduction of alternative methods of water supply. Providing water to the parties involved and their use by them can lead to externalities – both positive and negative. Problems usually arise in the situation with negative externalities, the elimination or mitigation of which necessitates technological and institutional solutions. The first solutions concern technical methods, such as wastewater treatment, for example, and their repeated or better regular reuse, as it is practiced in the circular economy, the second ones affect institutional solutions that can be divided into three types from a theoretical and methodological point of view. These include: 1) government intervention (practiced in a situation of «market failures»); 2) a Coasen solution (involving market contracting between producers and consumers of negative externalities); 3) a hybrid way of problem solving (combining the market efforts of the parties involved and non-market activities of organizations interested in the public good).

The Formation of the Avia-Technological Structure in the Times of World War I

The paper discusses the development of the aircraft industry and the military organization in Russia, France, Great Britain, the USA, Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire with the primary attention to the Caucasus’s army, the Black Sea Fleet and to the Southern-Western front. It is proved that the Turkish aviation took the active part in the genocide of Armenians, that the Turks made secret test-flights of the newest German aircraft’s types before their starting up in the serial production. It is established, when and in which place in the Asia Minor the Turks used the chemical weapon. The comparative analysis of the development of the foreign and of the Russian aircraft firms is made with the primary attention to the fates of the organizers of the Russian aircraft industry – Major-General M.V. Shidlovsky and S.S. Schetinin. Firstly, with the help of the government of Paraguay, the date of Schetinin’s birth and death is established. The Guerra del Chaco (1932–1935) is studied as the direct continuation of the WWI. Its analysis is based on the works of W. Churchill, Marshal F. Foch, Infantry’s General Yu.N. Danilov, military historian A.A. Kersnovsky. The making of the aircraft’s technological structure in the WWI is considered according to theory of the social clasterism of V.L. Makarov and to the theory of long waves of V.E. Dementiev.

Mathematical Methods and Models of Optimization and Control in the Formation of a Bonds Portfolio in the Derivatives Market

The article presents a set of methods and models of the mathematical foundations of management based on the basic concepts of functional analysis and generalized functions, as well as martingale methods in boundary crossing problems by Brownian motion, aimed at studying and studying optimization processes in managing the effectiveness of the stock and bond portfolio on the valuable market securities (derivatives).

Enterprise as an Object of Information Display

The approach to the broad concept of statistics of the enterprise is offered, having added its information components allowing using them for forecasting of results of its activity, using the device of modeling of its behavior. The definition of the boundaries of the subject area is based on the view of the functions, which most determine the behavior of the enterprise. The first of them proceeds from the fact that the enterprise, being a productive element of the national economy, is a form of large-scale commodity production, that is, the production of goods and services not for domestic consumption, but for sale in the markets; the second – from the fact that the enterprise is an independent economic unit, owns its assets and can enter into various kinds of liability relations, i.e., has behavior in a very real and empirically certifiable sense; and the third – that the enterprise is a system of collective action, ensuring the institutionalization of entrepreneurial functions of the enterprise in the economy. Analysis of «object state», «enterprise assets», «solutions of enterprise» and «the interests of participants of enterprise activity» are the central concepts in the analysis of the enterprise behavior is proposed to conduct in the context identified of the systemic aspects of its operation. On the basis of the proposed approach to the construction of the broad concept of enterprise statistics, a conceptual and terminological analysis is carried out and a fragment of the system of indicators reflecting the state of the enterprise as a technological element, as an independent economic unit and as a system of collective action is constructed.

Analysis of Economic Indicators of Oligopolistic Markets under Cyberthreats

The article is devoted to dynamic economic analysis of optimal Nash strategies of oligopolists under cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure. Oligopolists maximize their NPV taking into account that attackers try to minimize this criterion. Different scenarios of evolution of some abstract ologopolistic market experienced cyber-attacks are considered.

Construction of Distributions of Population on Incomes for Inertia Scenario of Social Politics

The calculation of income at different levels of the income vertical includes an analysis of the distribution of the population by (simple) income and the calculation of income that has undergone transformation in the implementation of a particular social policy and a particular direction (stage) of it. At the same time, it is necessary to formalize the task of finding the family structure of the population in order to build a curve of income distribution.

Goods Specificity and Their Safeguards

The article emphasizes that there is currently in general a consensus on the fact that there is a wide variety of goods, but there is no consensus on the choice of the only acceptable approach to their classification for all. Among the approaches, we can note those based on a dichotomy (either private or public goods) and a continuum (there are no clear boundaries between private and public goods and all their intermediate variants). The article focuses on the first approach in order to make the visual representation of goods more simplified and intuitive. With this in mind, theoretical approaches to the classification of goods with an emphasis on public interest in some of them, which causes the need for guardianship (patronization) over them, are studied. The starting point is a simple contractual scheme of Williamson, adapted to solve the problem of specificity, however not of assets, but of goods, meaning primarily private and public goods. The traditional expression of this problem is the «freerider» problem, when the need for a public good is not supported by the desire to pay for it. Public goods, whether merit (positive externalities, for example) or demerit (negative externalities), need protective mechanisms, such as patronization – from the state and/or society. Some features of patronized goods and safeguards, or mechanisms for their protection are discussed. It is particularly emphasized that public goods and goods that are likened to them in some sense exist in a certain dynamic institutional environment, the quality of which largely depends on the adequate choice of institutions that can reinforce each other or weaken them if they are not adequately chosen. The mentioned goods are analyzed on the example of water resources, whose specificity, in particular, is manifested in the fact that decision-makers and local authorities can use automatic irrigation systems to produce social (collective, locally public) goods, for example, urban green landscape. In this sense, such systems, being private goods, can act as factors of production of social goods.

An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of the Religious Component of the Culture Factor and the Prospects for Sustainable Development

The article emphasizes the special importance of culture as a major factor that largely determines the socio-economic competitiveness of the country, and analyzes the role of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the religious component of the cultural factor in the context of sustainable development prospects.