Kravchenko L.I. The role of government in ensuring the economic security of the country: from the real to the necessary

Abstract: The subject of this research is the function and place of the government in realization of the economic policy. The author analyzes the government’s role in the context of the liberal economic model, and underlines the vulnerable points in the concept government self-repair and proves the need for substitution of the liberal economic model to post-liberal. In order to ensure the economic security, government should carry out an mobilization function. Thus it is suggested to increase the portion of state property and the scale of state spending, as well as to introduce the notion of responsibility and move towards the fair redistribution of the resource streams. The author’s main contribution into the revelation of this topic consists in proposition of the new economic model, in which a substantial place belongs to the optimal role of the government from the perspective of ensuring the economic security. The author suggests the quantitative parameters of the state’s weight in the economy and promotes the concept of the responsible state policy in implementation of the economic vector of development.

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