CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE STUDY OF HERMENEUTICS OF EFFICIENCY CATEGORY IN TERMS OF EVOLUTION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE

Currently, in economics, there can be seen a generation of different models, mechanisms and methodologies for analyzing the content of the efficiency category. In these conditions, many researchers are still trying to justify the need to unify approaches to its definition. The article shows the differentiation of approaches to the hermeneutic of the effectiveness category determined by the stages of the evolution of scientific knowledge (classical, nonclassical, post-nonclassical) and by complication of the object of study (the development of a simple, self-regulating and self-developing complex systems). For this purpose, the following approaches to epistemology are used: hermeneutical, systemic, and dialectical. The author states that mechanical picture of the world, which is the basis of the categorical grid of the description of simple systems, typical of the classical stage of the science evolution, has determined the development of the reductionist idea about the effectiveness as the effectivity (Walras approach). The emergence of the ideas of probabilistic and objective causality at neo-classical stage of the development of scientific knowledge made it possible to complement the concept of efficiency as the effectivity by using interpersonal comparisons of utility (Pigou approach) and methodological relativity principle (Pareto approach). The determination by objective reality, characteristic of the modern (post-nonclassical) stage of the development of scientific knowledge, predetermined including social and ethical-legal aspects in the content of the efficiency category and the possibility of applying two approaches to its hermeneutics: efficiency as effectivity and efficiency as effectiveness. The application of efficiency category as an integrated element of management system (performance), which synthesizes the categories of effectivity, effectiveness and quality, is associated with the necessity to reflect scientific concepts, which is the second feature of the post-nonclassical stage. The selection of various types of efficiency (internal and external, potential and actual, static and dynamic) is associated with the complication of the research object - the development of complex self-developing systems. The conclusion is that at the present time the determinant of quality is the defining element in the interpretation of the efficiency category (performance), characterized by the quantitative certainty.