The article highlights the scientific achievements of the first group of scholars of KyivNational Economic University (the first third of XX century), who not only laid the foundations of the University’s scientific potential, but also considerably enriched the world economic science.

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The article displays the way of formation and changes in subject matter and method of political econ-omy with the development of capitalism. Objective limits of the subject matter are investigated as directly determined by the capitalist system. The paper examines genetic and structurally functional linkages as a starting premise of the method of political economy and reveals the nature of empiri-cism and theoretical knowledge in economic research

Keywords:subject matter and method of political economy, economic theory and economic practice, specific features of the method of political economy

The scientific traditions of the Odessa School of Economic Thought, which was created by Professor A.K. Pokrytan, can play a significant role in the further development of the logico-historical approach to the analysis of economic development. One of the most important methodological foundations of the Odessa school is the consistent delineation of the formal and the real sides of the transformation processes. The main purpose of the article is to outline in the most general terms the opportunities that the methodology of the Odessa school opens up for the analysis of the transformation processes unfolding today in the world economy and, first of all, in the most developed countries.
The most important result of the study is connected with the conclusion that at the present time the process of the movement of a highly developed economy is developing not just towards the next technological order, but towards a new technological method of production. This tendency can explain much in the modern world, including the turbulence that we see today in Western society. Modern highly developed society is still only nominally post-industrial, and there has yet to be a process of real post-industrial transformation in the future. The latter can be very painful for it, since it is connected with the mass expulsion of people from the sphere of material production and management. Thus, the main conclusion is that the contradiction between formal and real transformation, which at the end of the 20th century determined the historical fate of Soviet society, in the 21st century begins to exacerbate now in Western society, which enters into a process of real post-industrial transformation.

Keywords: logical-historical approach, Odessa school, economic theory, real post-industrial transformation, technological way of production, highly developed economy

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The article reveals the most important scientific aspects of creative heritage of the outstanding economist Anatoliy Karpovych Pokrytan. It is shown that his research of the problem of property, the theory of social reproduction, and methodological problems of economic theory are in demand today in the study of the problems of Ukraine’s economy and the world economic space. According to A.K. Pokrytan, in the process of scientific research it is impossible to study the structure of the economic system without taking into account its genesis, and vice versa, the study of genesis is possible only on the basis of knowledge of its structure. It is shown that the combination of logical and historical forms of cognition allowed A.K. Pokrytan, in the conditions of independent Ukraine, to give not only an objective assessment of the past economic system, but also to understand the nature of market reforms in this country’s economy and identify those problems whose solution will overcome the negative trends in the market economy.
It is determined that in modern conditions the main provisions of scientific concepts of A.K.Pokrytan can reasonably be used in solving modern problems of the theoretical analysis of economic processes. It is shown that the researcher’s contribution is a methodological and theoretical tool that allows to study the nature of modern development of Ukraine’s economy.

Keywords:economic and legal form of ownership, theory of social reproduction, unity of subject and method of political economy, objective nature of economic relations, genesis and structure of production relations.

The legal form of public administration is analyzed, its internal economic content related to material production relations and the objective economic laws immanent in them is investigated.
The research methodology is based on the demarcation of the structure and dynamics of the political-economic system, which is consistently carried out by the Odesa School of Economic Theory.
It is shown that the political and economic content of public management and administration always has a concrete-historical character. The modern standard of an effective political and economic system is the "mirror symmetry" of its structural and dynamic dependencies. Such "mirror" symmetry is achieved only when the "top-down" dynamic dependence includes all structural levels of the political-economic system in sequence: public management and administration - objective production relations - productive forces of society. If one of these three levels falls out of the "chain" of dynamic dependencies, the system ceases to meet the political and economic requirements of modern development and is unable to find adequate answers to historical challenges.
In the modern state-capitalist model of managed development, dynamic dependence is able to cover all three structural levels in the process of consciously using the objective economic laws of capitalism for the development of productive forces, including public management and administration.
The practical significance of the research results is related to the justification of the objective necessity for Ukraine of a state-capitalist model of managed development, in which public management and administration are aimed at the conscious use of objective economic laws for the development of productive forces.

Keywords:political-economic analysis; public management and administration; state capitalism; managed development; liberal model of governance; spontaneous development