PROBLEMS OF ECONOMY MANAGEMENT IN THE LIGHT OF COMPLEXITY THEORY

The article presents the results of the fi research on the problems of governing a state with the use of the methodology of complexity theory (cybernetic epistemology) The toolkit allowed the authors to conclude that the complex, dissipative system of the state, located at the bifurcation point, cannot be managed by traditional methods. The recursive nature of the state and economy development process defies linear-hierarchical governance, and requires serious fundamental work on the application of strange attractors mathematics for modeling and control.Cybernetic epistemology reveals an insurmountable contradiction between forming a governing subsystem on the partisan-and-backroom principle and tasks of socioeconomic systems management. A transition to a meritocratic recruitment system in all legislative and executive bodies can be the only solution to the problem.Scientific novelty of the presented research results lies in application of Gödel’s theorems of incompleteness to socio-economic processes analysis. Modern theory and practice are based on three main axioms: matter and energy; a cell; evolution, that F. Engels presented in “Dialectics of nature”, following L.A. Feuerbach. The axioms allowed to explain the socio-economic processes within the range from Homo Economicus to Homo Soveticus. To explain the transition from capitalitarian stage of evolution to the humanistic one it’s nec3ssary to introduce into scientific circulation a new axiom: autopoetic process of consciousness evolution. In other words, it is not only an object of control that changes, but consciousness of subjects of control changes as well. That was brilliantly foreseen by. K. Galbraith as early as in1967 in the work “New industrial society”. The integration of these and some other classical science achievements with the methodology of complexity theory made it possible to present the analysis of two management issues and to make a conclusion on the movement of governments, societies and economies of the new humanistic social-economic formation.

management, complexity theory, ontology, organization pattern, subconscious pattern, structure, system theoretical model, system operation, autopoiesis, self-creation, dissipative structure, complex non-equilibrium thermodynamic system, bifurcation points, a critical threshold of stability

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