Integration of the national system of high economic education in the world system of teaching activities, maintaining and developing the former’s achievements and traditions, is one of the priority tasks for every high education institution preparing specialists in economics. The author considers applied aspects of the implementation of the Bologna Declaration’s requirements in teaching activities of high educational institutes, which prepare economists.

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The article substantiates the necessity of modernization in high education in general and economic education, in particular, in the context of the world globalization and enlargement of economic knowledge. The main tendencies in the development of universities’ economic education have been analyzed and the experience of the Kyiv V. Hetman National Economic University has been studied in the light of fundamentalization and individualization of educational activities.

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The author considers theoreticomethodological aspects in the evolution of the modern factors of socioeconomic development. He justifies that, in the new economy, innovational labor and intellectual capital are increasingly considerable development factors. The article generalizes the changes in the sphere of labor at the stage of the formation of knowledge based economy.

Keywords: intellectual capital, innovative work, the new economy

The author considers the main methodological approaches to and difficulties of analysis and assessment of escape of capital. She analyses the Russian experience of the research on the problem of escape of capital and provides various quantitative assessments of the volumes of escape of capital from Ukraine’s economy based balance of payments data during 2000 – first half of 2008

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During recent decades, there have appeared a number of concepts, doctrines and initiatives aimed at responding the challenges, which the socium is facing at the verge of the millennium and promoting increased well-being and high living standards of the world community. Among them is the doctrine of “social cohesion”, whose genesis, contents and guidelines of practical use is the subject of the given article.

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The article explores the theoretical basis of corporate social responsibility in the context of the formation and evolution of the world economic thought in this area and discusses the stages of the development of theoretical thinking and expansion of the thematic framework of the phenomenon of "corporate social responsibility". The author reveals the impact of the practices of corporate social responsibility on the socioeconomic development of the organizations and examines the factors determining the impact of that public institution for the social and economic development of the organizations. Selected various trends in the development of the theory of corporate social responsibility and formulated various lessons for the practice of social work.

Keywords:corporate social responsibility, corporate social susceptibility, corporate management, ethical code, corporate culture, sustainable development

In this work, we have studied the theoretical aspects of nature, and the effects of the formation and development of two phenomena of our time – individualization of personality and formation of individualized societies. The study evidences that social life in the context of individualization has, on the one hand, multiple opportunities for self-actualization and individual’s prioritization and, on the other hand, contradictions, and unexpected consequences and asymmetries that surround ‘individuals’. The opposite side of the individualization trend includes lack of stability, predictability, sustainability of society members, weaker involvement of economically active population in group interaction, as well as erosion of cultural solidarity, and ‘atomization’ of people due to the loss of usual and traditional social relations. The authors propose a way to overcome the ‘negative’ false individualism.
There might be much sense in the idea that the opposition between individualism and collectivism, an individual and society, freedom and socialization can be overcome, but neither by removing certain elements nor by underrating certain values nor by ignoring the need for their development. The inclusion of opposing phenomena and processes in today’s more comprehensive and complex mental schemes helps us deploy efficient and socially relevant projects for sustainable economic and social development.

Keywords:individualization of personality, individualized society, freedom of personality, socialization, ‘negative’ individualism

In this work, we have studied the theoretical aspects of nature, and the effects of the formation and development of two phenomena of our time – individualization of personality and formation of individualized societies. The study evidences that social life in the context of individualization has, on the one hand, multiple opportunities for self-actualization and individual’s prioritization and, on the other hand, contradictions, and unexpected consequences and asymmetries that surround ‘individuals’. The opposite side of the individualization trend includes lack of stability, predictability, sustainability of society members, weaker involvement of economically active population in group interaction, as well as erosion of cultural solidarity, and ‘atomization’ of people due to the loss of usual and traditional social relations. The authors propose a way to overcome the ‘negative’ false individualism.
There might be much sense in the idea that the opposition between individualism and collec-tivism, an individual and society, freedom and socialization can be overcome, but neither by removing certain elements nor by underrating certain values nor by ignoring the need for their development. The inclusion of opposing phenomena and processes in today’s more comprehensive and complex mental schemes helps us deploy efficient and socially relevant projects for sustainable economic and social development.

Keywords: individualization of personality, individualized society, freedom of personality, socialization, ‘negative’ individualism

The article contains the authors’ concept of man as a strategic resource and goal of socio-economic development and the theoretical-methodological analysis of the interaction between man and the new economy, in terms of the dominants of their development. Authors argue that the transformation of the industrial economy into the new economy opens up new opportunities for man’s development and self-realization. At the same time, this transformation is associated with the action of a number of factors making the development of the new economy extremely controversial, due to the reproduction of old contradictions and the emergence of new ones. Authors prove the need of shifting the emphasis from ascertaining "the end of the familiar world" to outlining and mastering the mechanisms of the functioning of "the unfamiliar world" which it becomes for most people.

Keywords:new economy, network person, human development, socio-labor dimension, human economy.

The article presents the scientific substantiation of the phenomenon of social inequality. The tendencies of social inequality of incomes have been investigated and its impact on leading socio-economic processes has been proved. The trends of the development of global income inequality in the future have been outlined. The purpose of the article is the author's explanation of the nature of social in-equality of incomes, mechanisms of its reproduction and distribution through the prism of modern trends and further development in the global dimension. The methodological basis for achieving this goal is systematic and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the system of distributive relations in the context of profits and losses in the contour of the global economy have been presented. The approaches to the study of the system of distributive relations in the context of profits and losses in the contour of the global economy have been presented. The essence of the definition of "social inequality" has been revealed. The spectrum of manifestations of social inequality has been outlined, among which the inequality in income is the key reasoned argument. An estimation of the current state of global income inequality with an emphasis on its components has been made. The author argues that the social processes of the era of globalization include both the deepening of inequality and its reduction in certain sections as a consequence of changes in the global distribution of incomes. Global inequality has been considered dually as inequality between countries and as inequality within countries. The phenomenon of income and wealth concentration in the upper segments under conditions of globalization and increase of national economies` openness has been substantiated. The "benefits" and "losses" incurred in the process of globalization with reference to separate population groups in rich and poor countries have been revealed. The tendencies of the change have been outlined and current trends in income inequality on country level and international level have been outlined. The positive and negative consequences of social inequality have been substantiated. The suggestion has been made to consider the galloping growth of inequality in the context of the relationship and interaction of inclusive and extractive institutions. The tendency of the decline of the middle class and the increase in the share of the upper tier`s (rich and super-rich) income has been proven. The movement of the distribution relationship in the direction of serving the interests of large capital and top management has been emphasized. The changes that contribute to the abovementioned situation have been outlined. The most vulnerable strata in relation to the level and dynamics of labor income have been distinguished. It has been emphasized that the concentration of income and wealth in the upper segments is nothing but a component of the failure of the global economy. The influence of inequality on the leading socio-economic phenomena has been investigated. The existence of complex, nonlinear, multi-vector link between inequality and economic growth has been proven. The trends of the development of global inequality in the future in the context of the rates of economic growth, its influence on the middle class stratum have been outlined.

Keywords:Social inequality, income inequality, global dimension of social inequality, inequality and economic development, inequality and social being, inequality and middle class.