The Potential of the Reproductive Approach (to the Anniversary of Viktor Cherkovets)

The article reveals the content of the reproduction approach, its historical and scientific origins, directions of development, forms of its realization. The author focuses on the role of classical and Marxist schools in the development of this approach, its comparison with alternative directions of economic theory. The article emphasizes the contribution of domestic economists to the promotion of this research perspective. Viktor Nikitich Cherkovets is a prominent Soviet creator of the reproduction approach, a bright representative of the university political economy school (“Tsagolov School”), whose 100th anniversary is celebrated this year. The article shows the academic and practical potential of this approach in studying and solving modern economic problems, as well as the inevitability of forming one-sided view of the economy if one ignores this approach. The author emphasizes the importance of the socio-economic perspective of this approach, its systemic possibilities. The paper draws attention to the idea of a possible collaboration of eff orts between the representatives of different directions of implementation of the reproduction approach. This, in turn, would strengthen its role both in economic theory and practice, and in the sphere of economic education as well. The article reveals the adequacy of this approach to the national characteristics of Russia, its relevance in connection with the new challenges facing the national economy.