The academic discipline “Paradigms of research of socio-economic systems” is a part of the special training cycle for Doctors of Philosophy in the field of knowledge 05 “Social and Behavioural Sciences”, specialty 051 “Economics” of the educational and scientific programme “Economics”. The discipline “Paradigms of Research on Socio-Economic Systems” is one of the key components of the educational programme “Economics”.

In the system of training Doctors of Philosophy in the specialty 051 “Economics”, the scientific discipline “Paradigms of research of socio-economic systems” is mandatory.

It reveals

- paradigms of formation of the global socio-economic system;

- the genesis of public administration paradigms and analysis of the national economy, including general description and critical comparison of views, concepts, models and tools;

- conceptual genesis and methodological paradigms of regional and spatial development;

- general characteristics of the problematic field of scientific research in the area of business economics and business management.

The purpose of studying the discipline is to acquire knowledge, master the methods, tools and practical skills of researching socio-economic systems and processes at different levels of localization: global, national, subnational, business entity.

Objectives (learning objectives) of the discipline: acquisition of knowledge and skills for paradigmatic analysis of scientific research in the field of national economy and public administration, regional and spatial development in models of economic growth, international regional economic integration, polarization, sustainable development and others, as well as the problems of economics and management of microeconomic systems (enterprises).

The subject of the discipline is paradigms, theories and concepts of development of socio-economic systems of different levels (world, country, region, enterprise), paradigms of economic processes research and phenomena in (socio-economic) micro-, meso-, macro-systems and in the global dimension.