safety as a set of interconnected structural elements with vertical (mega-, macro-,
meso- and micro-levels) and horizontal (external, macroeconomic, production, energy,
financial, investment, innovation, food, and demographic, social and intellectual
security) levels.
Scientific approaches to the interpretation of the concept of "economic safety of
the state" can be grouped into the following blocks:
1) the state of protection of national interests and the ability to self-development
of the national economy;
2) the ability of the national economy to expand reproduction;
3) a set of measures aimed at the continuous and stable development of the state's
economy;
4) resistance to threats;
5) state of equilibrium with further development.
In our opinion, the economic safety of the state is the ability of the national
economy to reduce the negative influence of destructive factors and guarantee its self-
development with the help of automatic stabilizers on the one hand, and on the other
hand, to accelerate the development of the national economy by accumulating (gaining,
accumulating contributions) and in such a way to achieve a higher level of the national
economy safety in the state as a whole.
This interpretation of the essence of the economic safety of the state is based on
the following considerations. First, there are two approaches in the economic literature
concerning who and how should guarantee the country's economic safety. The first
position is that economic safety must be determined primarily by the effectiveness of
the national economy, that is, the higher the degree of economic development of the
state, the stronger the state's position in the field of safety is. The second position is
that the guarantee of economic safety should be carried out by a branched network of
economic, political and legal, state institutions with a corresponding functional
infrastructure.
The nature, structure and peculiarities of the system of economic safety in our
study will be examined from the point of view of the system-structural approach. The
objective pattern of the process of its creation and functioning involves several
successive steps.
Firstly, it is necessary to investigate the nature of the system itself, to find out its
inner nature and type (for example, closed or open, abstract or concrete, static or
dynamic, centralized or decentralized summation or active).
Secondly, it is necessary to define the purpose and main tasks, to open the
functions, to describe the order of its functioning and development.
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