Trends and contradictions in the modern economy

The worsening economic problems of the modern global community are becoming increasingly acute and obvious leaving no one indifferent. An attempt to understand these problems is presented in the articles of this collection. The implementation of growth-oriented macro- and microeconomic models is forming a prevailing trend in the modern economy: a significant excess of production capacity over purchasing power.Market oversaturation will lead and is already leading to a significant intensification of inter-company and inter-country competition and increased social tensions in individual countries and the world as a whole.