Scientific approaches to the economic category «public sector efficiency»

The article investigates scientific approaches to the category of «public sector efficiency» that have been formed in foreign and domestic economic theory. The author substantiates the necessity of functioning of the public sector system of the national economy and evaluating the effectiveness of its activities. The author considers the first points of view in the scientific world of the physiocrat F. Kene, as well as representatives of the school of classical political economy W. Petty and D. Ricardo in determining the performance of government structures. We study the works of the founders of the concepts of effective functioning of activities in the market economy, including state organizations, such as V. Pareto, A. Pigou, J.M. Keynes, P.F. Drucker, and others. Modern concepts of the efficiency of the public sector of the economy in Western economic theory, developed by P.E. Samuelson, W.D. Nordhouse, R.A. Musgrave, J.E. Stiglitz, N.G. Mankyu, K.R. Mcconnell, and others. Analyzes the scientific approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of the public sector in the national economy domestic scientists-economists such as E.V. Balatsky, O.A. Kokorina, T.D. Romashchenko, Yu.I. Treschevsky, V.V. Lukyanova, O.V. Rudakova, E.M. Samorodova, A.V. Revkuts, S.R. Muravyov, etc. On the basis of analysis of scientific works the author has selected a targeted, cost management and production approaches to the evaluation of the effectiveness of the public sector. In the course of the study, it was concluded that evaluating the performance of the public sector of the national economy based on only two aspects is not appropriate, since it does not fully reflect the activities of all structural components of the public sector. The author believes that the structure of the public sector of the economy includes three main, specific and quite independent elements-management structures, state corporations and the «social sector of the state». Therefore, it is advisable to conduct a study of the efficiency of activity of the public sector of the national economy using a three-component indicator that reflects all areas of activity and aspects of its functioning.