Authors: D. K. STOZHKO, candidate of philosophy, associate professor, department of history and philosophy, Ural State Economic University (62/45 8 Marta / Narodnoy Voli Str., 620144, Ekaterinburg), K. P. STOZHKO, doctor of historical sciences, head of the department of economics and organization of enterprises, L. A. ZHURAVLEVA, candidate of philosophy, associate professor, head of the department of philosophy, T. I. KRUZHKOVA, candidate of historical sciences, associate professor, Ural State Agrarian University (42 K. Liebknekhta Str., Ekaterinburg, phone: +7 (343) 371-33-63)
Keywords: philosophy of economy, values, economic education, economic culture, universal and professional competence of graduates of agricultural universities.
Abstract: The article analyzes the value, methodological and didactic potential of the discipline philosophy of Economics. The authors actualize the problem of inclusion in the educational programs of economic and managerial specialties of a new discipline – the philosophy of economy – as an integrative and systematic, forming a universal and professional competence of graduates. This course, according to the authors, will combine educational and scientific focus in the study of worldview, moral and cultural aspects of the economy in a variety of historical models and economic practices. Special emphasis in the teaching of the discipline will be placed on such important non-economic factors in economic development as spirituality, morality, religion, culture, intelligence, education, ethics, forming the human capital of a modern specialist in the agricultural sphere. Within the framework of scientific and educational discipline philosophy of economy it is possible to analyze and rethink the institutional foundations of the development of modern society, its political, economic and cultural life in the context of the unfolding globalism, technotronic nature of civilization itself, the post-industrial nature of the modern economy, the modern information revolution and the transition to a new technological order.
