| | PROBLEMS OF MODERN ECONOMICS, N 2 (46), 2013 | | PROBLEMS OF MODERNIZATION AND TRANSITION TO INNOVATIVE ECONOMY | | Bliakhman L. S. Professor of Department of Economics of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, St. Petersburg State University, PhD (Economics), Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation
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| The article offers an alternative politico-economic conception of infrastructure as a leading sector of the innovative economy and a public production force. To a large extent infrastructure may not be described through market categories such as perfect competition (it is impossible given the natural monopoly), complete information on the quality and costs of production (given the distance between the location and the time of purchase and consumption of goods), private property (infrastructural firms use public resources), or rational behavior (certain groups of customers get priorities), etc. The special role of infrastructure determines its typology, developmental tendencies, specificities of property relations and price formation, and the significance of infrastructure for the economic integration on the level of the region and the state. Investments into infrastructure should be measured with regards to the external economic, social and ecological effects; no complete self-sufficiency of all elements of infrastructure should be expected; tariffs should not be established on the basis of actual cost price and pre-calculated profitability of investments only | Key words: infrastructure, public production forces, infrastructure tariffs, economic integration | Pages: 9 - 18 |
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