Economic security as a scientific category

Experts in the field of economic security have yet to come to a consensus as to how this security should be understood. Opinions on the matter are numerous and vary grearly. Such a discord prevents the creation of a coherent theory of economic security, which in turn makes it impossible to establish an effective mechanism to ensure the latter. The article features a new concept of economic security formed on a strictly scientific basis, elucidates the essence of the concept and provides a basis for a uniform interpretation of the phenomenon denoted by the term “economic security”.