Accumulated Deficiency of Housing Investments in Russia: Threats and Prospects
The author presents estimations of economic distortions in the Russian housing sector, which have become the result of the housing policy of the last 70 years. Such distortions are explained by the deficiency of investment required for supporting existing housing assets. The author suggests mechanisms for eliminating the gap between investment required and actual one. The study results allow justify the goal of the state housing policy in Russia and determine the optimal strategy for achieving this goal using available resources.
Qualitative Characteristics of the Housing in the Novosibirsk Region: Modern Trends
The problem of improving the living standards of the population of our country is one of the central ones.The direction and rate of economic growth at present and in the future largely depend on its solution.In this regard, the importance of studies of the main groups of indicators of living standards is increasing, among which housing conditions occupy a special place. The article analyzes indicators characterizing the living conditions of the population of the Novosibirsk region from the perspective of the qualitative characteristics of the housing stock. Particular attention is paid to the substantiation of trends in their changes, which are very contradictory. In connection with what they cannot be considered unambiguously as positive or negative. Such an analysis is useful in implementing the housing policy of the region.
An Essay on the Nature and Significance of the Normative Nature of Economics
It is conventional in economics to distinguish between the normative and the positive. The normative has to do with goodness and badness, and with what ought and ought not to be done;1 and the positive has to do with objective description and/or explanation, with what is and with what is necessary given some normative end. The normative has to do with desirability; the positive has to do with truth (in the sense of either descriptive accuracy or serviceability of a means to a given end).2