Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1994-2540 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1956 (Online)


institutions

Food policy and economic security of the Russian agricultural sector: Institutional analysis experience

Introduction. The need to adapt agriculture to the conditions of a turbulent external environment requires an increase in the efficiency of state regulation. Solving this problem should be based on rethinking the theoretical and methodological base of the modern food policy effectiveness study from the point of view of institutional analysis. Theoretical analysis. An ordered set of formal and informal institutions constitutes the institutional structure of the agro-food complex.

Methods for Measuring the Level of Social Capital in Russia and Abroad

Introduction. Category of «social capital» widely presents in foreign scientific journals. Russian science also explores this area of know- ledge. Intangibility and the existence in the form of social relations is one of the basic properties of social capital. The paper suggests several approaches to measuring the level of social capital based on the information in domestic and foreign sources. Empirical analysis.