ЕВОЛЮЦІЯ ПОГЛЯДІВ НА МЕТОДИ ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ КОЛИВАНЬ ДІЛОВОЇ АКТИВНОСТІ

The article examines the evolution of the economists’ views on the methods of detection and studying of business activity fluctuations in a market economy. The basic methodological approaches to the analysis of the business cycle ? mathematical-deductive, statistic-historical and econometric ? were defined. The current research of fluctuations in business activity ? such as residual method, econometric methods of direct measuring, harmonic analysis and square polynomials methods ? were analyzed. There was studied the method of cycle detection by the numerical series of unverified data.