Keyword: «economic science»

In the article the author conducts a comparative analysis between the goals and objectives of economic science, which A. Marshall set for it, and those goals and objectives, which are put forward by the modern state of the economy. The study emphasizes that A. Marshall is the last scientist who made an attempt to create a holistic model of the entire economy. His creative legacy is reflected in modern economic textbooks. However, the economics of the late nineteenth century and the economics of the early twenty-first century differ significantly from each other. First of all, that A. Marshall wrote his works for the economy of industrial society. Today we are entering the stage of post-industrial society economy. In this regard, the goals and objectives that Marshall set for economic science have changed. The paradox is that one of the tasks of modern science is precisely to find an answer to how exactly these goals and tasks have changed.