Investment Activity of Enterprises: the Essence, Indicators of Assessment and Risks of Falling into the «Traps of Backwardness»

The article presents the leading schools and concepts of investment of pre-capitalist and modern stages of Social Development. It shows the general and personal in the reproduction of production in time and space. It is proved that investment mechanisms have their own characteristics both in socio-economic formations and at various stages of the capitalist mode of production. A comparative analysis of the most common concepts and theories of investment was performed, which showed that most of the research concerns the investment activity of the real sector of the economy, which is losing its dominant position in modern world and national production.