A promising area of the research of institutional economics of Ukraine is the research of its methodology and history, covering the process of the formation, development, evolution of institutionalism in the totality of its components and options. Problems and prospects of the institutional economics in Ukraine are very important and this urgency is growing due to the fact that the practice of market changes in the Ukrainian economy in recent years is evidence of the lack of the institutional approaches to solving today's theoretical and practical problems.  The article offers to look at some current problems and issues of Ukrainian institutionalism as one of the modern economic theories, that defines the transition of the Ukraine's economy to a market system and, later, to a postindustrial society - the economy of knowledge.  The analysis of problem of forming of institutional principles, presence of row of institutes, gives pssibiy to understand and explain social processes that take place in our country, see the prospects of , b25community development. Untaking into account of achievements of all directions of development of economic idea in the conditions of a variety of the modern world threatens serious consequences – to the removals of those aims, that was put before itself by society.