Theme №2. The role of the state in the market economy

1. State as economic subject.

2. Economic functions of state.

3. Need and shortcomings of the state intervention.

Tasks:

1. Discussion of the questions;

2. Questions for discussion:

• What are the intervention?

• Call the economic functions of state.

• Call the need and shortcomings of economic policy.

3. Exercises:

Exercise 1. Creation of structural table: «Views of economists of need of state intervention in economy».

Exercise 2. Essay writing on the theme: «Fiasco of the market and need of state regulation of economy», «Shortcomings of the state intervention in economy».

Form of activity: practical work, discussion, independent activity, research activity.

Methodical instructions: Preparation for performance of tasks should be began with studying of recommended literature. You shall study implementation of government procurements, influence of the state orders on large and small business, competition of firms for the state order, formation of public sector, economy nationalization, and objects of state ownership.

Read about economic functions of the state: creation of legal base of functioning of economy, protection of system of the competition, equitable distribution of the income, stimulation of restructuring of economy, creation of built-in stabilizers.

Study the means and ways of state regulation, economic and political components the states, political systems, need of state intervention in economy.

Learn history of state regulation of economy, the reasons of need of intervention of the state in economy: monopolization of economy, disproportion in economy, conducting wars, production of the public benefits, support of scientific researches, injustice of distribution of the income, environment protection.

Writing of the essay, drawing up comparative tables and structural and logical schemes and other tasks will help you to fix this theme.

Literature: 1-35.

Theme №3. Formation of economic policy

1. Scientific bases and criterion function of economic policy.

2. Factor of time and problem of a choice of character of economic policy and its productivity.

3. Forms of economic policy.

4. Types of economic systems and economic policies.

Tasks:

1. Discussion of the questions;

2. Work with state program:

• Address of President of Republic of Kazakhstan «Kazakhstan’s way – 2050: common aim, common interests, common future»;

• Concept of State Youth Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan till 2020.

1. Questions for discussion:

• What is the purpose of policy?

• Call the factors of time and problem of a choice of character of economic policy.

• Call the economic systems.

• Call the economic policies.

4. Exercises:

Exercise 1. Work and analyze information about and writing on papers:

• Anti-cyclic regulation and long-term regulation in the developed, developing countries;

• Anti-cyclic regulation and long-term regulation in Kazakhstan.

Exercise 2. Creation of structural table: «Classification of purposes of economic policy».

Exercise 3. Give two examples of collateral consequences (positive and negative), construct a structural and logical chain.

Exercise 4. Draw a polygon of the purposes for Kazakhstan.

Exercise 5. Essay writing on the theme: «How I understand the theorem of efficiency of economic policy? (with example)».

Form of activity: practical work, discussion, independent activity, research activity.

Methodical instructions: Preparation for performance of tasks should be began with studying of recommended literature. When studying this theme, you shall understand main and applied purposes of economic policy, criterion function, scientific bases of economic policy, definition of the general purpose and tree of purposes, classification of the purposes by character, by time of their achievement, by a rank, by interrelation, by the direction, and allocation of priority purposes, emergence of collateral consequences at achievement of the purposes of economic policy, definition of the principles of statement of purposes, polygons of purposes of economic policy.

Read about time factor, logs, and political restrictions, mechanism of the state influence, influence of the social environment on degree of perception of the state influence, theorem of efficiency of a state policy.

Study forms of economic policy, anti-cyclic regulation, and long-term regulation.

Analyze problem of a choice of character and main forms of economic policy, productivity of economic policy, interrelation of economic policy and types of economic systems.

Writing of the essay, drawing up comparative tables and structural and logical schemes and other tasks will help you to fix this theme.

Literature: 1-35.