An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding a Changing World
Keywords:
new opportunities, e-consumers, digital needs, digital information environment, interdisciplinary approach, synergy, behavioral economics, socio-humanitarian approach, informational diseases of socialism, digital addiction, new digital generation, Internet as noosphera.Abstract
The subject area of modern economic science does not include many subjects that are traditionally underestimated by professional economists, and thus have come under the jurisdiction of other sciences: philosophy, psychology, sociology, cultural studies.
There has taken place a transition from the first, technological stage, which studies the production of technologies, to the second stage, namely the study of their consumption. The emergence of many new opportunities has produced a fundamental reorganization of society. A lot of new possibilities have appeared, which has reorganized society fundamentally. The leading role in the study of consumption belongs to personal values, informal rules and relations. Inadequacy of new conditions of life and obsolete laws are discussed in the article. The article discusses the issue of the inconsistency of new living conditions with outdated laws. The most well-known human-centered interdisciplinary approaches are considered: synergetics and behavioral economics. In our country, a technocratic approach to considering the social consequences of the spread of ICT has dominated and still dominates. Focusing on a person as a central subject and object of economic growth implies the need for a cultural and psychological aspect of analysis.
