Broad-scale economic crisis, which led to a number of serious attempts to understand the nature of ongoing social and economic processes and to analyze and evaluate the efficiency of the existing economic systems, is progressively subsiding. In current publications major attention is given to the solution of today’s economic problems. Attempts are undertaken to reveal major trends of a new stage of economic development. Therefore identifying the basic patterns which led to the present-day economic crisis and which determine the pathway of the world economy development and provide a theoretical basis for economic forecasting and strategic planning of national economic development is a topical issue. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3p64