HOMO EMPATHICUS AND HOMO ECONOMICUS AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF ILLUSIONS OR THE PSEUDOREFORMATION OF THE AGRARIAN SECTOR AS A RESULT OF THE EQUILIBRATION BETWEEN THE ETATISM AND THE “LAISSEZ FAIRE” PRINCIPLE

Abstract

The results of studies of the problems of Ukraine’s agrarian sector testify that the reformation of the agrarian sector cannot be considered now completed, aince it was realized in many cases by the principle “one step forward and two ones backward.” But the solution of the problem of development of Ukraine’s economy is impossible without true reformation, rather than the imitated one. However, the experiment with the conservation of the invariable etatism and the dosed allowance of the “laissez faire” principle led to the mass appearance of agriholdings. This became the main tendency in Ukraine’s agriculture and made the harmonic development of the agrarian sector to be impossible, because the principal goal of the activity of such structures, namely the maximum profit, is attained exceptionally due to the specialization on the production of the most commercial kinds of products and leads to the exhaustion of resources (concentration on the production of grain crops and legumes, sunflower seeds, and sugar beets causes the degradation of lands due to, first of all, their excessive chemical intoxication; moreover, the number of cattle in farms does not increase). The long period of futile efforts to combine the etatism and the “laissez faire” principle in the agrarian sector has proved finally that the exit from the long!term crisis state is possible only if the measures directed to the ensuring of its development will fit the market principles of financial! economic regulation. This requires the overlooking of the tax and credit policies, since Ukraine can count on only the own forces under current conditions. The hope for the altruistic nonrepayable help is illusive. In this aspect, the priority belongs in the first turn to the ensuring of a balance of the crop production and the stockbreeding, which must guide all programs of stimulation of the development of the agrarian sector.