Lozhachevska O.
Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Department of Management,
National Transport University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Spitsyna A.
PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National Transport
University, Kyiv, Ukraine
ECONOMIC CULTURE OF PROFESSIONALSʼ SELF-REALIZATION
Introduction. Economic culture is an important component of the economic
activity of society. It largely determines the level of economic activity in the country,
its economic development and the rate of economic growth. Without a substantial
renewal of the economic culture, it is impossible to overcome the imbalanced
development of the economy during its transformation into a socially oriented
sustainable economy.
The problem of economic culture is relatively new in economic theory and
therefore is poorly investigated both in Ukraine and abroad. Thus, in Ukraine,
economic culture has been investigated only since 2000ʼs, while business culture,
which is now treated mainly as business etiquette, even later. The problem of economic
culture is becoming even more significant due to the growing role of a professionals
as subjects of economic behavior.
Economic values are generally accepted ideas about the goals that an individual
strives for in economic activity. They function in the form of an ideal, the basic
principles of thinking and are ideal criteria for assessing economic events, phenomena
and processes.
Economic values are based on the concepts of "wealth", "money", "income," as
well as relatively more abstract categories such as "capitalism", "socialism",
"individualism", "economic freedom", "equality" etc. Any society and any social group
have their own hierarchies of values. For some groups of the population, wealth can be
valued as the highest good, for others it is a "pure conscience". In some societies,
private property can be regarded as a condition for the realization of the individual's
economic and social freedom, and in others as a social evil that generates social
inequality and conflicts.
Some aspects of economic culture have been studied by economists, sociologists,
psychologists and educators (V. Lagutin, I. Bekeshkina, V. Pylypenko, A. Suryak, G.
Assonov, O. Khutoryanenko, T. Zaslavska, R. Rivikina, V. Shcherbyna, Ye.
Suimenko, E. Shchabliy, E. Golovakha, S. Makeev) and other representatives of
different schools. But today there is no studies on the business culture of society and
its characteristics in comparison with economic culture: there is no systemic analysis,
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