THE DIGITAL ECONOMY: TOPICAL ISSUES OF THEORY AND PRACTICE

Abstract

The modern stage of economic development in world and Russian economic science and master practice is commonly called the digital economy. Digitalization had made significant adjustments to all spheres of society, sparking a scientific debate on the substance and content of such concepts as “digital economy”, “digital sector of the economy”, “digital literacy”. Due to the fact that the theory and practice of digital economy are currently being orally developed, there are a lot of differences in the use of these terms in science and practice, which requires additional scientific research in the field of systematizing the conceptual provisions of the theory of digital economy. This situation is complicated by the multidisciplinary nature of the issues under consideration, which have economic, technical, socio-cultural aspects and, in that connection, by the difficulty of bringing together representatives of different sciences. The article analyzes the origins of the formation of the theory of digital economy, the main approaches to determining the essence of the concept of “digital economy”, considers the complementary nature of the study of digital economy as a modern economic environment - a stage of the development of the information economy, and as a sphere of application of digital technologies. The author substantiates the opinion that in the context of the digital economy, bringing into line with the new realities of the content of university educational programs is of fundamental importance, since the formation of a digital literacy and economic way of thinking among future specialists as the basis for solving professional problems in the digital environment takes on special importance.