Contours of the Digital Economy in Russia |
Authors: Evgeny V. POPOV Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr. Sc. (Econ.), Head of the Center for Economic Theory Abstract: The paper systematises elements of analysis of modern digital society within the author’s concept of econotronics. It shows that econotronics is a subdiscipline of social sciences devoted to the dynamics of economic institutions of interaction between actors and society in digital economy. The author analyses research subject of econotronics and on the basis of the modern notion of homo institutionalis argues that the most adequate toolkit to model the processes of digital society development are tools of institutional economics. The research reveals elements of institutional design of econotronics’ transactions, identifies directions for institutional modelling of the subject of econotronics, and emphasises that econotronics is a scientific concept for modelling of the digital society development. Keywords: digital society; econotronics; homo institutionalis; institutional design; modelling For citation: Popov E. V. Econotronics of the Digital Society. Izvestiya Uralskogo gosudarstvennogo ekonomicheskogo universiteta – Journal of the Ural State University of Economics, 2018, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 8−17. DOI: 10.29141/2073- 1019-2018-19-3-2 |