National resource availability: undeniable value, divine providence, resource curse or economic development potential

Abstract

The article presents the author’s approach to understanding the main problem of national resource supply through the prism of choosing the fundamentals and directions that can move the situation from the dead point, highlighting conceptual ideas and placing emphasis on the development of the country’s economy. Assuming the idea of multiplying, increasing the national wealth of the country, the author considers the availability and structure of resources, the correlation of resource use, income generation and distribution. Countries rich in natural resources are perceived and assessed ambiguously, and in this connection the concepts and concepts of the «curse of resources» and «Dutch disease» appeared in science, the importance of which is reduced to the state management of the economy and resources. The ideas of development can be very different. The statesmen need to make a strategic choice between eroding national sovereignty within the framework of deepening integration into a single world civilization, building up the power and dominating the country as an empire, with a hyper-egoistic orientation only to increase the welfare of ruling elites or dynamically improve the quality of life of Russians with the recognition of the value of each individual at the state level. And this task is not only a constitutional guarantee, but an ideological development, a socio-economic ideology and a worldview. The emergence and adoption of a search strategy for the best solution in the allocation, combination of resources and structuring of the economy, in determining an exceptional resource-technological path for the benefit of the country and the people is extremely relevant. The optimistic scenario is related to synergetic processes in the innovation economy, as in space and time transformations take place in the worldview, creativity and activity, in understanding the role of man in the resource environment, in applying new methods and technologies for managing natural and economic resources, taking into account environmental safety and technological development. Depending on the chosen path, idea, development stage, different resources can be involved, but the development goal should be understood clearly, implemented systematically and in a complex manner.