Ekonomika stalosti yak haluz' doslidzhen' suchasnoyi ekonomichnoyi nauky: problemy ta pravo na isnuvannya

The history of sustainable development problem appearance was generalized, and it was bounded the notions of sustainable and stable development. The usage of the notion sustainability was investigated in the Ukrainian and foreign economic theories as the independent part of sustainable development. The notion “sustainability economics” was formulated. It was observed such main topics of sustainability economics investigation, like theoretical principles, normative bases, goals, subject, and ontology. The possible connection between normative sustainability and positivist economy was investigated as the right of sustainability economics existence. Sustainability economics was shown in the environmental approach. It was observed the beginning of usage of Ukrainian equivalent of “sustainability”. The connection between sustainability economics, ecological economics, resource economics and environmental economics was drawn. The perspective way of development of investigations of sustainability economics was observed in order to use in practical life new implementations of modern economic theory.