Methodological aspects of economic safety in the context of unstable external environment.

Abstract

The article is devoted to the research of economic safety and its influence on sustainable development of society. Essence of sustainable development and different levels of economic safety is defined in the work. The structure of threats to regional economic security has been studid. The threats to the city’s interests are determined. Authors prove the influence of definite factors of economic safety on each of its levels, taking into account principles of sustainable development of society. Forming of the system of indexes of economic security has been offered.Subsequent development got the system of indexes, which characterizes the condition of economic safety. Some theoretical and methodological aspects of diagnosing threats to social and economic security of the city and overcoming these threats in contemporary condition are considered. The proposals are made to improve the diagnostic of the economic security of the city. The directions are defined for improving the provision for the economic security of the city.