Yakovenko R. Reproduction of Human Potential Under Conditions of Transformational Economy.

The dissertation reveals the evolution of views on the role of a human in economics in the papers of economists of different scientific schools and trends. The essence and structure of human potential, the importance of which is occupied, both by economic and non-economic elements and factors that characterize the development of an "homo economicus" into a "homo creativus", in the process of transforming of economic and social relations, and their transition to a qualitative new level have been determined. On the basis of a combination of material and non-material production relations and stimuli, major prerequisites that determine a growth of human productive ability have been specified. Professional status of employees in Ukraine, which is determined by a scientifically technological progress, development of education, improvement of labour and living conditions has been analyzed.