Social capital: a threat of negative application
The author justifies a conceptual provision that social capital can be composed of not only positive but also negative elements. Most researchers, including economists, sociologists, and psychologists stress the importance of the formation and development of human capital in modern society. However, they ...
Geography of the mobile internet in the border and interior regions of Russia
... source, year
Information transmitted from/to subscribers of the mobile network of the reporting operator when accessing the internet, petabytes
Information flow
Rosstat,<13> as of the end of 2021
Share of the region in national imports, %
Goods and capital flow
Rosstat,<14> 2021
Share of the region in national exports, %
Share of the region in the total number of international migrants aged 15 years and older residing in the country, %
Migration flow
Rosstat, data from a sample household survey ...
The economy of Russian Baltic regions: development level and dynamics, structure and international trade partners
The article explores the challenges encountered during the formation of the Baltic macro-region comprising Russia and eight EU countries (Germany, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) in the context of the ongoing geopolitical and geo-economic changes. The article aims to assess the dynamics, level, structure and pace of economic development of three Russian regions located on the Baltic Sea (St. Petersburg, Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions) and analyse the intensity...
The modern economy of Russia’s Baltic regions in the municipal context
... Baltiysk UD showed the most significant decline among the municipalities (by more than 15 %).
The connection between small business development and the ratio of cities and rural areas is also ambiguous. On the one hand, Kaliningrad, as the regional ‘capital’, does not stand out from other municipalities in the importance of small business. On the other hand, it is higher in the largest suburban municipalities of both regions (the Guryevsk MD and the Vsevolozhsk MA). In the Kaliningrad region, a ...
Economic development of Russia’s north-western regions and migration to the St. Petersburg agglomeration
... the regional centre, which often serves as the region’s education nucleus [18], [20]. Unlike the previous era of the USSR, where a considerable number of graduates from higher and secondary vocational education institutions would leave the regional capital for more remote areas in exchange for certain social advantages, the prevailing trend among today’s graduates is to either stay put, often not fully utilizing their professional skills, or to relocate to even larger cities.
Another factor apparently ...
Entrepreneurial capital of the region: the concept, manifestations and spatial localisation
An important element of the explanation why an entrepreneur carries out high-risk transactions is the evaluation and analysis of her or his inner qualities. Thus, there is a need to identify the connection between entrepreneurial risk and capital. At the regional level, there is an ongoing academic discussion as to who the carrier of entrepreneurial capital is and how this capital can be measured and evaluated in view of its direct influence on the business environment and economic growth ...
The factors of human capital reproduction financing
This article is devoted to the analysis of influence of a certain set of factors on human capital reproduction financing. The basic factors are as follows: demographical factor, public sector development level, technological development, labor market situation, political factor, and the state of economy.
1.
Демографический
...
Human capital of young public and political figures: A resource approach
This article analyses human capital of young public and political figures in modern Russian society. Based on the methodology of resource approach and the methods of modern statistics, the author identifies three groups of young public and political figures: political leaders, political ...
The border as a barrier and an incentive for the structural economic transformation of the Kaliningrad exclave
This paper aims to study how geopolitical shifts affect regional economies and their structures. Border functions and regimes act as tools for the economy and society to adapt to the redistribution of political influence, movements of people, goods, capital and information between integration associations, individual countries and their cores. A changed environment may slow down the development of some industries (and even cause them to decline) and give a boost to others, with these two processes ...
Three Russian Baltic regions in the context of confrontation between Russia and the West
This study examines the features, limitations and development prospects of three Russian territories bordering the Baltic Sea — St. Petersburg, and the Leningrad, and Kaliningrad region — amid the sharply heightened confrontation between Russia and the West, which has affected the Baltic region. The time frame spanning from 2014 to 2023 was chosen for the study. This period encompasses the sanctions imposed by Western countries and their associations, primarily the EU, in response to the return...
Population change and the settlement system transformation in Poland, as revealed by the 2021 census
... initiatives aimed at increasing fertility rates. Both countries perceive government investment and support for family and fertility as key approaches tackling their demographic issues. Poland has the 500+ policy [3], while Russia has its maternity (family) capital policy. At the same time, birth rate stimulation in Poland also has a repressive component. They limit abortion penalizing providers,<1> which is not yet the case in Russia.
The demographic processes in Russia and Poland are also similar....
Cross-border tourist mobility as seen by residents of the Karelian borderlands: COVID-19 restrictions
... preferences and a network of contacts with Finnish residents and organisations. The COVID-19 restrictions affected the routines of the residents of the Karelian borderlands more severely than those of people living in the inner municipalities or the regional capital. The findings of the study provide a comprehensive picture of the significance of cross-border tourist mobility (border tourism) and point to spatial differences in the perception of the study phenomenon by the residents of border, interior and ...
Internet diffusion and interregional digital divide in Russia: trends, factors, and the influence of the pandemic
... Share of people aged 18 years and older living in households with only cordless phones, %.
4. Number of subscribers of mobile wireless high-speed devices per capita
Influence of neighbouring regions (+), high level of education (+/–), Putnam social capital index (+)
Methods: cluster analysis (k-means method), Moran’s index I, OLS
Pick, Sarkar, Parrish, 2021 [37]
Business climate (+), high level of education (+/–), human development index (+),
Double step OLS (2 SLS)
Source: Compiled by the authors ...
Small towns of Latvia: disparities in regional and urban development
... 1990 to 45 in 2019; the population fell from 2.668 m to 1.92 m over the same period.<5> Urbanisation in Latvia was characterised by migration from rural to urban areas, primarily to Riga, where 36.4 % of the country’s population resides (the capital and the Pierīga region account for 53 % of the population). Latvia is divided into five planning regions: Riga and Pierīga, Kurzeme, Vidzeme, Zemgale and Latgale. Most Latvian towns are steadily losing population at a rate of about 12— 13 ...
Billionaires and Millionaires of the Baltic Sea Region: A Comparative Analysis of National Business Elites
... Next Global Stage. Challenges and Opportunities in Our Borderless World, New Jersey, Pearson Education.
10. Robertson, R. 1992, Globalization. Social Theory and Global Culture, London, SAGE Publications.
11. Robinson, W. 2017, Debate on the New Global Capitalism: Transnational Capitalist Class, Transnational State Apparatuses, and Global Crisis, International Critical Thought, Vol. 7, no. 2, p. 171—189.
12. Robinson, W. 2008, Latin America and Global Capitalism. A Critical Globalization Perspective,...
On Russian/Nordic Investment Competition in the Baltic States
The researchers often overlook the relationships between Russian and Nordic investment capital; and even less attention is paid to studying the competition between the two. Yet this subject can be of particular relevance to the areas that are geographically, historically and culturally close to both Russia and the Nordic countries. Thus,...
The theory of peripheral capitalism: on the applicability of the Latin American model to the Baltic States. An attempt at an inter-disciplinary analysis
... study of post-Soviet transition lies in the focus on the technically theoretical problems that are nevertheless the key to understanding regional development processes in the East of the Baltic Sea. The research aims to verify the theory of peripheral capitalism as applied to the Baltic States. The first theoretical objective is to draw a distinction between the ideas of modernisation and transformation in a regional context. The second objective is to adjust the theory of peripheral capitalism to ...
An Attempt to the economic and geographical analysis of the differentiation of the Russian Federation subjects on of the level and dynamics of the retail trade development
The level and dynamics of development of retail trade in the context of the subjects of the Russian Federation are highly differentiated. Differentiation is influenced both by the income level of the population and by other factors, since there is no functional dependence between per capita income and the volume of per capita retail trade. Even weaker is the connection between the dynamics of these indicators. The article reveals regional features of the level and dynamics of retail turnover in the...
Inter-organizational networks as seen by western economic sociology: An analysis of theoretical approaches
....
1. Alter C., Hage J. Organizations working together. Newbury Park, 1993.
2. Benson K. J. The Interorganizational Network as a Political Economy // Administrative Science Quarterly. 1975. Vol. 20, № 2. P. 229—249.
3. Bourdieu P. The forms of capital // Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education. N. Y., 1986. P. 241—258.
4. Coleman J. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital // American Journal of Sociology. 1988. Supplement. Vol. 94. P. 95—120.
5. Coleman ...
The geoecological potential of sustainable development: The evolution of the concept and its structure
... views on the geoecological potential and related concepts. The author’s definition of the geoecological potential is offered. The article describes the structure of the geoecological potential through identifying and defining its natural and human capital components. The key elements of the natural capital are raw material, biological, water and a number of other ones. The human capital is divided into geodemographic and moral-cultural capitals.
1. Реймерс Н. Ф. Природопользование ...
On Sources and Mechanisms of Coastal Area Self-development
... functioning on the basis of genetic-cultural determination. The author comes to the conclusion that an efficient regional economic policy aimed at the increase in the region’s competitiveness should rest, first of all, on the development of intellectual capital and the corresponding human capital, the revival and strengthening of the economic role of technocracy and small innovative enterprises.
1.
Гогоберидзе Г.
Г.
Комплексное регионирование приморских ...
Negative externalities and sustainability of energy sector
....
Beer P., Friend F. (2005). Environmental accounting: A management tool for enhancing corporate environmental and economic performance. // Ecological Economics.
4.
Berkes, F., Folke, C. (1994). Investing in cultural capital for sustainable use of natural capital. / In: Jansson A. M., Hammer M., Folke C., Costanza R. (Eds). Investing in Natural Capital: The Ecological Economics Approach to Sustainability. - Washington DC. P.128- 149.
5.
Bohle, H. G....
“I lived in Moscow, the capital of the world…”: Moscow in the poetic geography of Alexander Galich
... geography (geopoetics) of Alexander Galich, one of the brightest representatives of the author’s (bard’s) song of the 1960s—1970s. The construction of Galich poetic world actualizes the opposition of the center / periphery, while Moscow (or another capital replacing it) acts as the frequency expression of the structural center, and the periphery can be represented as a) the Russian province, b) a place of memory, c) the space of otherness. This article is devoted to the description of Moscow as ...
Reclaiming the “Cultural Mandate”: The Idea of Sustainable Development in the Kantian Perspective
In the Club of Rome report Come on! Capitalism, Short-Termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet (2018) Kant, along with other “old” Enlighteners, is presented as the father of a world-view which led to the destabilisation of the environment in which humanity exists. The ...
Immanuel Kant and the “New Enlightenment”. International Conference Report
... Federal University (IKBFU) in Kaliningrad on 20-22 April 2022. It was organised by IKBFU’s research unit Academia Kantiana with the support of the Petersburg Dialogue Forum. Speakers analysed the theses of the Report to the Club of Rome, Come on! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet (2018), whose authors, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker and Anders Wijkman, initiated a call for a “new Enlightenment”. The participants compared these theses with Kant’s philosophical ...
Territorial structure of inbound and domestic tourism in the Baltic States
... and domestic tourism and the degree of transport infrastructure development. The results of the study suggest that there have been progressive changes in the territorial structure of tourism in the Baltic States. The main centres of attraction are the capitals and their adjacent territories. Horizontal contacts with more developed regions of the EU states and vertical interaction with other regions of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have a significant impact on the development of tourism activities. ...
A typology of the Baltic region states according to excellence in science and technology
... international business. To date, the main generally accepted vector is neo-institutional economic theory, within which several paradigms have been developed which can be used for the study of regions:
— eclectic paradigm (OLI model);
— knowledge capital model;
— FSA-CSA matrix paradigm.
The eclectic paradigm, which has been developing for more than three decades, considers the ownership of firms (O), the advantages of their location in specific territories (L) and the advantages of internationalization ...
Reputation core of Russian authorities: the case of the regional level of executive power
... unity between the state and society, closing the value gap that exists between authorities and citizens, and promoting a partnership model for their interaction. The reputation of Russia’s authorities is a critical component of the national symbolic capital and an intangible resource for the development of the state and municipal system of administration. Reputation plays a vital role in determining the success of the authorities’ political, economic, and social positions, as well as the overall ...
The sea factor in the federal regulation of Russia’s spatial development: post-Soviet experience and current priorities
... crisis and the lack of prioritising characteristic of today’s Russia [11]. We believe that the sea factor and its potential contribution to national development must be fully taken into account.
Coastal regions and Russia’s demography, economy, capital investment and inter-budgetary transfers, 2019—2020
Region
The proportion of coastal regions
in Russia’s demography, economy, capital investment
and inter-budgetary transfers, %
Population
GRP
Public capital investment
Inter-budgetary ...
On mortgage potential in the digital monetary era
The study focuses on the evolution of the financial system that has created prerequisites for the world capital to re-evaluate the investment potential of individual assets. This turned out to be extremely relevant for cryptocurrencies as well. The purpose of this study is to systematize various points of view about the cryptocurrency, including the antagonism ...
The population of the Kaliningrad region and the digital economy: a sociological analysis
... International Conference on Social Science and Contemporary Humanity Development (SSCHD 2019), p. 76—80. doi:
https://doi.org/10.2991/sschd-19.2019.32
.
21. Karthikeyan, C., Pious, T. 2019, A meta analytical descriptive study on evolving concepts of human capital and its application in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews (IJRAR), vol. 6, no. 2, p. 361—373.
22. Ukolova, N. V., Novikova, N. A. 2019, The place of human potential in the digital ...
Innovative development of Russian coastal regions: north–south divergence
... region and Rostov and Krasnodar in the Azov-Black Sea region. Methodologically, this study carries out a comparative assessment of heterogeneity of innovative development at municipal and interregional levels, using four groups of indicators: human capital, economic growth and clustering, innovation and digitalisation, and quality and standards of living. All these components are vital for regional innovative development. A statistical assessment is supplemented by a qualitative analysis of spatial ...
Sustainable development of the city territorial capital: adaptive policy through the geography of knowledge
... urbanized scientific regional centre. This study aims to assess the territorial distribution of Russian cities by their ability to generate new scientific knowledge with the subsequent development of recommendations for managing their territorial capital as the basis of competitiveness. For Russia, the solution to this problem is most relevant in the view of a wide variety of cities and the impossibility and even danger of using unified approaches to their development. The large territory ...
The Institutional Architecture of Territorial Innovative Systems: Towards a Spatially Targeted Regional Policy
... uniqueness of a territorial socio-economic system lies in the specific features of spatial networking of economic entities that form clusters of excellence and ensure the competitiveness of the entire system. Identifying the key elements of territorial capital is a global challenge faced by modern regional policy. I analyse the background for, and limits to, the development of a spatially targeted regional development policy. Lithuania’s so-called valleys – integrated centres for research and business ...
Correlation-regression analysis of bitcoin characteristics
... is devoted to the phenomenon of a money surrogate, introduced in the form of a bitcoin, a popular cryptocurrency. The purpose of the research is to study the influence of the price-per-unit value of the cryptocurrency on the indicator of the market capitalization of the bitcoin cryptocurrency through correlation-regression analysis. As a result of the research, the author becomes the first to prove the direct dependence of the mentioned indicators, namely, a strong relationship between the price ...
The Welfare State (Social State) in the Russian Federation as a Constitutional Principle and its Practical Implementation
... Federation, especially the relevant state measures supporting families, birth rate and migration. Legal research in this paper is also focused on the selected state projects realized in the contemporary Russia: state program of the maternity (family) capital, experience of the granting the Charge-Free Land Property for multi-child families, and also so-called project of the "Charge-Free Far Eastern Hectare". Based on the conducted analysis the authors of the article have made several suggestions ...
Social practices and mechanisms of socialization of uncertainty
... The author carries out an analysis of social phenomena (personality, organizations and institutions) on the basis of anthropological presuppositions about the nature and features of uncertainty. The analysis rests on the concepts of multiple forms of capital, different orders of value, and field and habitus theory.
1.
Becker G.
Human Capital. Chicago, 1964.
2.
Boltanski L., Thévenot L.
On Justification. The Economies of Worth. Princeton, 2006.
3.
Dequech D.
Uncertainty and Economic ...
The adaptation of Russian regions’ economies to the rupture of relations with Europe: the case of Baltic Sea ports
... domestic air carriers in 2022; it was direct budget support to compensate for losses incurred due to the severance of transport links with Western countries;
— Russian Railways received 250 billion roubles from the National Welfare Fund for additional capitalization; the primary objective of the additional capitalization was to supplement budgetary funding, specifically earmarked for the modernization of railways in the Far East and the procurement of rolling stock from Russian suppliers.
— Numerous ...
The geopolitical effect of the maritime factor on the spatial development of post-Soviet Russia: the Baltic case
... perspective, the Russian Baltic region and particularly its Kaliningrad exclave must rely even more strongly on coastalisation in its socio-economic development.
This inevitable change, determined by path dependence, the available infrastructure and human capital, is complicated by both the current geopolitical landscape and the overall long-term geoeconomic trend towards redistributing Russia’s maritime activity in favour of non-Western coasts. The geopolitical situation hinders the execution of flagship ...
Different approaches to studying the tourist flows geography (the case of the Benelux countries)
... from a particular country in the total volume of inbound tourist flow, and the degree of attendance calculated on the basis of the share of the country’s tourist the total tourist flow of the country. The regions that are the main centers of tourism (capital, seaside, border) and geographic factors that affect the degree of attendance of the region by tourists from different countries are identified: the language of the region, distance from the border, the capital factor and, in some cases, the presence ...
Kant and the New Enlightenment: On the Balance between Duty and Utilitarian Ends
The relation between Kant’s philosophy and the “philosophy of balance” as it is described in the report Come on! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet, delivered to the Club of Rome in 2018, requires some analysis. The authors of the report consider Kant to be a philosopher of European Enlightenment which laid the foundations of ...
Evaluating the efficiency of the research sector in Russian regions: a dynamic data envelopment analysis
... publication year.<8> A FWCI of 1 means that the citation impact of a work is exactly the global average. We smooth this metric for two consecutive periods.
It has been proposed in the literature to use variables associated with stocks, typically capital stocks, as carry-overs. Statistics of this nature, as is known, are difficult to collect when it comes to research and technology. However, period-wise accumulated internal expenses seem to be a good proxy indicator [22]. In our model, we capitalise ...
Changes in the structure and geography of tourist flows during the COVID-19 pandemic
... Baltics and in the regions on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, the degree of substitution was rather moderate. In some of the regions, even a partial substitution of domestic for inbound tourism did not occur. A characteristic examples are the capital regions of the Baltic region countries, St Petersburg and Germany’s Hamburg and Brandenburg, all of them major pre-pandemic destinations for international tourists. This group also includes the Murmansk, Leningrad and Pskov regions, and two ...
The spread of the COVID-19 infection in Russia’s Baltic macro-region: internal differences
... and measurable.
The coronavirus pandemic undermines the traditional idea about the virtues and deficiencies of the two types of spaces. Today’s global economy gives an advantage to the space of flows as they are more receptive to new information and capital. The spaces of places are inertial and less adaptable to current economic conditions. In a situation where the intensity of human interactions has a substantial impact on the spread of COVID-19, the hermetic spaces of places find themselves in ...
The two-party tendency in Poland’s political system: manifestations, causes and prospects
... elections, while PO enjoys huge support in big cities. Six of Poland’s ten largest cities have been governed by PO mayors: Gdańsk uninterruptedly for twenty years; Warsaw and Lublin since 2006; Łódź and Bydgoszcz since 2010; Poznań since 2014. The capital is a special case: PO has been in power in the city ever since a short period in the first half of 2000s when PiS prevailed (future President Kaczyński was mayor at the time).
Another factor in the party system stabilisation, which was brought ...
Structural changes in the economy of the Russian North-West regions: institutional factor
... economic space transformation, the paper draws on economic theory and geography, the concepts of cluster and power generation cycles, regional economics and other theories. It presents the results of the institutional and economic research of income capitalization and the role of the institutional factor, along with regional gross value added (GVA) analysis by activity types. The study investigates the movement of capital (rent) in the economic space. There are several noticeable trends: the Arkhangelsk ...
The Problem of the Revolution in Gramsci (Between Kant and Marx)
... would realise in fact Kant’s moral: only a society completely freed from oppression and exploitation would allow people to be free and autonomous. After the fall of the Winter Palace, Gramsci wrote that the revolution happened “against Marx’s Capital”, or better, against its literal interpretation as spread by the positivistic Marxism of the Second International. Between the end of the 1910s and the beginning of the 1920s, Gramsci thought it possible for Italy and the whole of Europe “to ...
On the implementation of social innovation in rural area Kaliningrad oblas
... Инновация. URL:
https://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/ruwiki/152267
(дата обращения: 10.09.2021).
2. Logue D. Theories of Social Innovation. Cheltenham, 2019. doi:
https://doi
. org/10.4337/9781786436894.00007.
3. McElroy W. M. Social innovation capital // Journal of Intellectual Capital. 2002. Vol. 3. P. 30—39.
4. Schermer M., Kroismayr S. Social innovation in rural areas // Osterreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie. 2020. № 45. S. 1—6.
5. Попов Е. В., Кац И. С. Влияние ...
Spatial diffusion of Asian direct investments in the northern European EU countries
... in developed countries. Their ascendancy leads both to a distortion of the geographical pattern of subsidiaries networks of investor companies and to the intention of investors to sell their assets in provinces and move their head offices closer to capital cities. Consequently, there is a simplification of the structure of businesses, which is typical of the earlier stages of the FDI spatial diffusion.
1. Gurova, I.P. 2019, Regional Distribution of Foreign Direct Investment in Russian Economy,...