SUBJECT FIELD OF THE MODERN POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE PLACE OF INFORMATION SOCIETY THEORY IN IT

The article shows the need for extension of the subject and the methodology of the modern political economy to overcome the crisis of the general economic theory. The formation of the paradigm that will restore the integrity and will contain the past achievements of the economic science could be the solution to this crisis. A new wave of interest of the political economy approach could thus be the explanation to the fundamental problems of the economic theory. The augmented modern political economy can offer fundamentally new opportunities including prospects for the formulation of laws on which the information economy had been constructed. The formation of the complex and contradictory in content of the global socio-economic transformation of post-industrial structure, the essence of the formation of information society, is in the focus of social scientists who examined primarily political and social aspects of this complex process, while large-scale economic changes hardly find adequate reflection in the social sciences. The actual for modern political economy is the expansion of the subject due to socio-economic aspects of the formation of information society and information type of economy for the adequacy of the politico-economic analysis that have been shown in the article. As a result the methodology of modern political economy complicates and expands by the inclusion of the theory of the information society.