The problems of market pricing and training Russian economists

In the condition of globalisation the development of Russian economy puts the problem of training of high quality specialists. They have to know the laws of the functioning of modern economy and be able to make effective decisions. Russian economy and its elements develop in contradiction. On the one hand, the market laws are the reality in our economy: the private property, the competition, the consumer behaviour, the supply-and-demand equilibrium, cost minimization, profit maximization. On the other hand, the implementation of these laws has positive and negative displays. Market pricing is an example of this development. The function of market prices is realized in two periods. The first period (1990s) forms the basics of Russian market pricing, when the society had no theoretical and practical knowledge about this phenomenon. There is a common opinion that market prices will solve the problems preserved from socialism. The process of pricing developed in the conditions of high inflation, poor state regulation. Profit maximization put mistrust between the sellers and the buyers; cost minimization did not form the process of cost economy and so on. The low level use of ethical relations attracts attention. These contradictions develop in the conditions of global economic recession. The existing practice of the prices functioning does not help to train high quality specialists. The West transnational corporations are examples of civilized behaviour. These subjects interact with Russian companies as competitors or in joint ventures and encourage the development of market in Russia. At present the quality of the state regulation is changing. These processes give hope that economists with new reason will form ethical pricing in Russia.

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