Application of Elasticity Theory for Assessment of Social and Economic System Sustainability

Abstract

The source of emergence of sustainability problems related to social and economic systems lies in factors of complexity and uncertainty. The presence of sufficient sustainability in the performance of social and economic objects characterizes effectiveness of adaptation mechanisms and their abilities in risks overcoming. In our opinion, sustainability assessment is possible on the basis of the theory of elasticity connected to adaptation potential formation. The article proposes and tests authors' approach to social and economic systems sustainability assessment. The used criteria were as follows: functionals of difference or relation between real and ideal characteristics of system performance quality. To estimate connection between resource perturbations and deviations from program reference points of system development the elasticity functions were elaborated. They are derived by correspondent modification of production functions. Recommendations for ways of perfecting the mechanisms running programs of social and economic systems development on different levels are proposed.

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“…Отметим, что степени независимых переменных (факторов) в производственных функциях показывают некие эффекты, поскольку являются коэффициентами эластичности зависимой переменной от независимых параметров. Однако Г. Литвинцева и А. Карпович (Litvintseva, Karpovich, 2019) разработали функции эластичности для определения связи между ресурсными возмущениями и отклонениями от целевых параметров развития социально-экономической системы.…”