The article highlights current theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the evolution of economic systems. The author reveals theoretical achievements of J. Schumpeter in understanding the mechanisms of self-development of economic systems that are justified in anunorthodox concept of “creative destruction.”
Keywords: nonequilibrium and nonlinear economic systems, economic synergetics, self-organization and self-development of economic systems.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/1728-2667.2013/145-4/3