Kudinova A. Consumption Relations in the Global Political Economy Paradigm

This thesis is a comprehensive study of theoretical fundamentals of social reconstruction in the global economy. There has been substantiated a specific role of personal consumption in the context public welfare enhancement. The research has shown the nature and forms of an internal connection between the dynamics and structure of individual needs and economic growth on the basis of sustainable development. Much attention has been defined basic methodological and socio-economic preconditions for the formation of the global political economy, its essential characteristic is disclosed, methodological approaches of the global political economy to the study of social reproduction processes. There have been characterized the determinants of global structural changes in consumer relations system, defines the place of personal consumption in the context of the global political economy. Analyzed conditions, factors and stages of internationalization, reveals the role of non-economic factors in shaping consumption priorities of global consumer, reasonably role greening consumption as a factor in the transnationalization of economic relations, investigated competitive national consumption patterns. There have been studied the problems of relations of consumption in Ukraine, assessed the effectiveness of the domestic consumption pattern, developed scenarios of implementation of socio-oriented model of consumption in Ukraine.