Development of political economy as a science in the Russian Empire in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

In 2015, political economy, as a science, dates back 400 years since the emergence and the beginning of its formation, as a separate science. This is a sufficient period for making general conclusions, but these conclusions are ambiguous. Political economy, as science was formed as a result of historical development of the initial economic relations - socially divided labor, which is the subject of studying political economy. The main historical stages of the development of political economy as a science in Ukraine are revealed, the objective foundations of the existence of periods of its de actualization and new actualization, аnd a place in the system of economic sciences, the unity and difference between the subjects and methods of political economy and other components of economic theory.