This paper analyzes the reasons why hybrid organizations appear in some traditional communities, but not in others. For this purpose, a field study was conducted in three villages in Dagestan, where there is different dynamic of cooperation between local entrepreneurs. The interviews show that the main factors in the development of hybrid organization are the presence of closed social capital, informal regulators within the community, the presence of demand for community products in foreign markets, and the ability of local entrepreneurs to borrow know-how from outside the community. In addition, the following barriers to the development of hybrids were identified: low quality of the institutional environment, differences in the approach to doing business among community residents, and rural depopulation.

The global COVID-19 pandemic and an unexpected recession of dangerous proportions have provided strong reasons to look at the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from three perspectives: The SDGs as a victim of the 2020 recession; the SDGs as an opportunity for better coordination on the way out of the recession; and the SDGs as an object of modernization for better adaptation to the realities "on the world stage". The BRICS countries are interested in developing and implementing the SDGs on a global scale as a way to catch up. The authors propose a "pandemic protocol", as well as a change in the methodology for including indicators in the SDGs: the introduction of new indicators that are important for sustainability and the incorporation of cross-cutting key indicators for the SDGs, both new and existing.

By way of our investigation  we examine the interconnection between the social capital and the pro-environmental behavior of an individual. To estimate the influence, we use WVS’s data for 2011 referred to the USA, as well as we build models assessed by using OLS. We suppose that the general confidence, trust in neighbors, as well as an individual’s shared identity affect greatly and positively participation in ecological demonstrations, donations to ecological companies, as well as the general evaluation of an individual’s pro-environmental behavior. Our results confirm the positive influence of the trust in neighbors on the general evaluation of individual’s pro -environmental behavior. And the dependence is stronger for those who trust in people in general. Self-identity as a cosmopolitan  influences  all  variables  examined  of  pro-environmental  behavior.  This  testifies  the strong connection between the social capital and environmental protection concern.

The purpose of this article is to expand the understanding of the negative environmental load from production activities. It is based on the theoretical foundations relating to residual value. It also makes use of environmental and economic accounting introduced for deep analyses of hidden residual values, in particular in discussing concluding terminal costs and remedial costs in the context of dynamics of environmental sustainability. A complex understanding of the hidden residual value is suggested on macroeconomic in the capital concept and global levels. The macroeconomic measures (indicators) are considered in accounting the hidden environmental impact resulting from production activity.

The article considers the theoretical aspects of mass consciousness and its forms, the essential characteristics of mass behavior, as a result of which the definition of this term is formulated and corrected. The authors  analyze the evolution of concepts of mass consciousness in historical retrospect and at the present stage, its features in the conditions of transition to the digital economy. A fresh look at the problem of mass manipulation in a digital society through various mechanisms is given, and the transformation of mass behavior in the 21st century is analyzed by comparison.

The work is devoted to a review of the results of the 148th meeting of the Dispute Club “Economic Policy Knots” of the Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks (hereinafter referred to as ARETT) on the topic "How the economy of Russian cities going through the crisis". The purpose of the event was to discuss a number of issues related to the impact of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy of  Russian cities. The debaters were  Leonid Eduardovich Limonov, Director-Coordinator  of  Research  Programs  of  ICSER  “Leontief  Center”,  and  Irina  Dmitrievna Turgel, Deputy Director for Science and Innovation of the School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University. The review presents the key ideas of the disputants, and also summarizes the main results of their answers to questions.