Kyiv School of Political Economy as a subject of scientific studies

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper was the historical and economic analysis of the Kyiv School of Political Economy representation in the modern scientific literature and the systematization of approaches to determining this community of Kyiv economists. Analysis showed that in the Soviet period the scientific heritage of this community of scholars had been critical, and the school itself had been defined as bourgeois. At the end of the 20th century researchers began to show a creative perception of scientific achievements of the 19th – early 20th century economists, including Kyiv scholars’ achievements. The number of historical and economic studies were increased and the issues diversified. The author of this paper systematized approaches to studying the Kyiv School based on the complex analysis of modern scientific literature. These approaches are legal, financial, managerial and political-economic. Within these approaches, researchers study Kyiv University School of Police Law, Kyiv School of Financial Law, Kyiv Financial School, School of Ukrainian Management Scientific Thought, Kyiv Psychological School of Political Economy, Kyiv School of Economics, Kyiv School of Political Economy, etc. The most common one is the political-economic approach, within which researchers study the methodology and scientific achievements of the Kyiv school and some of its representatives in the field of economic research. The author emphasized that such a variety of different approaches is generated by the multifaceted Kyiv School’ scientific achievements that give food for research to modern specialists in various fields of economics and law. It was concluded that an attempt to reduce the community of Kyiv scholars to one scientific school, focusing on the only research area, would be artificial as it would cut off other areas that don’t meet the requirements of the chosen peculiarity. JEL classification: B19