METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE RESEARCH OF ECONOMIC INTERESTS

The article analyzes the methodological aspects of the study of economic interests by the main directions and schools of economic science. The methodology of research of economic interests by classical school of political economy, neoclassicists, institutionalists and neoinstitutionalists is compared. The possibility of combining the methodological tools of institutionalists and neo-institutionalists for an objective analysis of interaction of actors in the economic environment has been proved. Сombination of these methodological principles will allow more objectively reveal the peculiarities of the formation, implementation and reproduction of the economic interests of actors, to take into consideration the influence of formal and informal institutions on economic aspirations and economic behavior of actors. The proposed methodological approach can be used to develop the mechanism of institutional influence on the process of reproduction of economic interests