THE INFORMATION ECONOMY THEORY AS A LOGICAL STAGE OF POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

He author represents the new classification of information economy conceptions. There are many different names and directions to study and understand the essence of the new economy: knowledge economy, innovation economy, network economy, creative economy. Representatives of each direction served their own vision as the only correct. In such a situation to form a unified theory of the new economy is important to group concepts for their key competencies and their critical analysis, thats are presented in the paper. We concluded that the concept of technological structures cannot be called a complete concept of the information economy, because of it merely states the fact of technological changes affecting the economic relations and general conditions in the economy. It’s proved to use the name of the new economy "information economy" as the most general and comprehensive.