March 2025 saw the release of the thematic journal issue, “Economic Theory, Economic Education, and Digital Economy” (Issue No. 1, 2025), curated by Dr. Evgeny Balatsky. The guest editor is Evgeny Balatsky, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Chief Researcher at the Center for Comparative Socio-Economic and Political Studies of the IMEMO RAS.
”Prof. Balatsky: “Modern economic knowledge is undergoing an extremely challenging period. On the one hand, much has already been discovered, understood, and conceptualized; on the other hand, adequate answers to the most pressing questions remain elusive. Simultaneously, the technological paradigm of the 21st century demands that economic science evolve from abstract knowledge into a social technology capable of transforming the world. These new challenges and demands naturally trigger a Schumpeterian mechanism of ‘creative destruction,’ where old knowledge is negated while new ideas have yet to mature.”
The thematic issue is dedicated to analyzing the specifics of the current methodological impasse in economic science and exploring pathways to overcome it. These two themes permeate all the included articles, shedding light on and deepening our understanding of ongoing processes.
”Prof. Balatsky comments: “Some articles ‘burn away’ the old paradigm of economic science and outline alternative paths, while others offer more concrete discussions of new research directions to ‘free the light of truth.”
For more details on this and other topics, explore the pages of AlterEconomics, Issue 22(1), 2025.
Balatsky, E. V. (2025). Economic Knowledge: Overcoming the Methodological Impasse. Read More
Balatsky, E. V. (2025). On the Verge of a New Economic Science Paradigm. Read More
Tolkachev, S. A. (2025). Economics’ Hard Fate in the Global Economic Crisis. Read More
Orekhovsky, P. A., & Razumov, V. I. (2025). Economic Theory of the “Classboard”: Between Reality and Simulacrum. Read More
Sukhikh, V. V. (2025). The Digital Revolution, the Crisis of Economic Theory, and the Return of Utopias. Read More
Volchik, V. V. (2025). Ideology, Digital Economy and Prompt-Knowledge. Read More
Veselov, D. A. (2025). From Growth Theory to Development Theory: Beyond Stationary Trajectories. Read More
Krinichansky, K. V. (2025). Political Economy of Financial Development. Read More
Buchinskaia, O. N. (2025). Economic Theory: New Paths for the Development of Economic Education in the Digital Economy Era. Read More
Kirdina-Chandler, S. G. (2025). Economists of the Russian Avant-Garde. Read More