The Big Capital of Ukraine in the Global Geoeconomy

Economic Annals-XXI: Volume 125, Issue 1-2(1), Pages: 95-96

Citation information:
Bilorus, O. (2013). The Big Capital of Ukraine in the Global Geoeconomy. The monograph review of Rakhmanov, O. «Owners of Big Business as a Subject of Social and Economic Transformations in Ukraine». Economic Annals-XXI, 1-2(1), 95-96. https://ea21journal.world/index.php/ea-v125-26/

The Big Capital of Ukraine in the Global Geoeconomy

The monograph review of Rakhmanov, O. A. (2012), Owners of Big Business as a Subject of Social and Economic Transformations in Ukraine. Kyiv: Institute of Sociology of NAS of Ukraine, 2013. 376 p.

The monograph is dedicated to the problem of social subjects in transitional society. In the work a new trend has been developed. The author investigates post-socialist transformations basing on the conception of subject nature (subjectness) of the big business owners as the ability to respond adequately to the social challenges for preserving control in the economic, political and humanitarian spheres of the society. The public opinion of Ukraine has not accepted the idea of foreign capital and monetary form of privatization involvement to the society, and this favored the formation of national capital. Most Ukrainian capitalists have obtained their primary capital by making their business starting without seed funding, while the part of capitals of nomenclature origin proved to be relatively small, and this has strengthened the social subject nature and independence of big owners in competition with political elites.

Keywords: Owners of Big Business; Capitalism; Social Subjectness; Mass Privatization; Post-Socialist Society