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From 11 till 14 November, Head of the Department of Economics and Business Administration at Sumy State University (SSU), Director of Institute for Development Economics, Dr. Professor L.G. Melnyk invited by the director of the Institute of Sustainable Development and Business Doctor, Professor Petr Schauer visited Prague University of Economics (PUE), which is included in the 700 leading universities in the world. The purpose of the visit is scientific and academic exchange. Two years ago Dr. P. Schauer visited SSU and delivered a lecture at the student conference “Economics for Ecology”. Dr. P. Schauer is the member of the editorial board of the international journal “Mechanism of Economic Regulation” published in SSU. During the visit, Prof. L.G. Melnyk delivered three lectures:
In addition prof. L.G. Melnyk presented the scientific report “Creating strategies for managing green economy” prepared by lecturers from the Department of Economics and Business Administration at SSU, Dr. O.V. Kubatko and Dr. O.M. Derykolenko. Great interest was aroused by the lecturer’s thesis about the necessity of mastering trialectic method of managing economic systems, of which he is the founder. The method is based on the use of reproductive self-organization of open stationary systems (including socio-economic systems) based on the interaction of three groups of factors: a) material and energy, b) information and c) synergetic (i.e. links, relations, communications). Using specific examples, the difference between “hard” and “soft” approaches to natural resource use has been demonstrated. “Hard” methods impact mainly on the material and energy factors, “soft” – on balancing use of all of the triad of factors and reproductive mechanism as a whole. The first method provides resource saving for separate economic stage and huge economic losses throughout the economic cycle. A significant benefit of the latter is detected at a holistic view of the entire cycle of the system’s functioning. Thus, total felling of trees in the forest provides cheap timber, but entails the loss of 57 of the 58 environmental and socio-economic functions of forests (water protection, climate, recreation, etc.). Selective wood felling is much more expensive, but allows maintaining the integrity of the mechanism of self-reproduction of the forest ecosystem, with all its functions.
Professor L.G. Melnyk, as the editor-in-chief of the international scientific journal “Mechanism of Economic Regulation” invited his colleagues to published scientific papers in it. Lecture for participants Dr. P. Schauer presents L.G. Melnyk’s lecture At the lecture for PUE graduate students Lecture for students Prague lives a quiet life. Although November days brought almost winter coolness the city is trying to compensate for its warmth by welcoming its guests. Even in the late autumn days flowers near the Prague University of Economics hold its summer beauty The feeling of the Christmas Eve … Prague prepares for globalization. Signs understandable in any language, “don’t make…”, “don’t walk…”, “don’t walk the dogs…”, “don’t set up…” The city has also thoroughly prepared for the cold winter season In Prague there no many monuments to the heroes, but on its streets and squares one can often find monuments to ordinary people. The main hero of the struggle for independence in the years of occupation 1938-1945 is all Czechoslovak people The girl with dove catches the eye of passers in any weather “Living monuments” are having lunch break … And this “monument” has not earned for lunch yet, more precisely, he has to “fly” for it This guitarist under the walls of an ancient castle is never sad The duo of the imprinted in granite bard and his contemporary colleague Perhaps in this pub J. Hasek often used to sit, mentally conversing with his hero Schweik It turns out that the restaurant at a small but cozy “Amadeus” hotel where the professor had to live is patronized by French actors P. Richard and G. Depardieu (they deliver their wine here and often visit it themselves) |
