НЕКОТОРЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ ТЕОРИИ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОГО РОСТА

The subject of the study is the resource approach to the economic growth policy including theoretical aspects of the economic growth model. A recession is usually replaced by the growth dynamics, and the economy’s recovery from the recession requires justification of government policy measures that not only help overcome the crisis, but also lead the economy to sustainable growth at a given pace. The study is concerned with the assessment of aggregate type models within the framework of the resource-factor approach and the impact of investments and consumer spendings on the economic growth rate at the theoretical (model) and empirical levels of analysis. The modern technological level and the type of “technological function” ensure not only the ability of the economy to grow in the current regime but also provide the basis for long-term growth prospects. The technological choice determines the extensive or intensive types of economic growth. The relationship between the rates of creating a new resource and diversion of an existing one to ensure the growth has been determined. The more intensive is the diversion of the resource from available facilities as well as the higher is the interest rate, the lower are the opportunities for creating a new resource and more modest are growth opportunities through the development of a new resource. It is shown that the change in the technological level to ensure the growth of the economic system requires a greater change in consumer spendings. Concerning the economic policy of investment promotion in Russia, it is shown that in the first phase of the recovery, it is advisable not so much to increase the amount of investments as stimulate aggregate consumption and restore the income level. Therefore, the consumption crisis must be eliminated, and since economic growth can occur not through investments (as it was in Russia before the 2015 crisis), it is necessary to seek a growth policy through investments considering their impact on the technological parameters of the economic system. Besides, the increase in the savings rate is not an end in itself for the establishment of the economic growth policy, it is, rather, a resultant parameter that should be taken as such when making macroeconomic decisions.