'Research Centre of Industrial Problems of Development of NAS of Ukraine'
Abstract
The article discloses the role and types of economic competition in the context of global information capitalism, which covers the developed countries of the world. The views on the formal basis of the development of society (negativity towards capitalism or its modification) are generalized, arguments of the authors of the article in favor of the latter are provided. The main driving forces of globalization, which leads to the formation of global competition as a new historical phenomenon, are specified. The principle of two competitions, socialization of capitalism as a method of competitive struggle of TNCs and a new tendency – monopolisation of markets are considered. Ukraine’s transition to a full-fledged capitalist market is critically analyzed. Features of current scientific research on the competition are presented. A modernized modification of the competition policy is suggested, the new direction of which in Ukraine should become, first of all, not the advocacy of competition, but a competitive higher school, in the course of political economy of which should be introduced post-industrial processes allowing Ukraine to accelerate the transition from the industrial market to the information post-industrial society
