Frontier, as a special model of the historical development of various countries, for a long time has been analyzed in detail mainly by historians. Recently, however, this problem starts to agitate the minds of scientists of other fields of knowledge. And the very concept of the frontier has gone far beyond just the Humanities. Increasingly, it is a term used by physicists, chemists, doctors, etc. At the same time, despite the fact that frontier has been studied for more than a century, it’s phenomenon is far from understanding. Scientists of various fields of humanitarian knowledge in the framework of the round table held at ASU in September, 2014, tried to talk about the frontier from different points of view. There were divergent opinions, sometimes mutually exclusive, which suggests that the problem of the frontier is not exhausted from a scientific point of view. Despite the different approaches, almost all participants talked about the importance of the analysis of this problem and productivity frontier theory, as a special heuristic model for understanding many processes of development of human societies.
