The modern scientific and technological revolution has radically changed the position of information in the system of social factors of production, presenting it in a number of main objects of work, decisive means of work, as well as the most important products of human labor. Information has become one of the main economic resources that, together with work, capital and natural factors, determines the efficiency of production and the logic of macroeconomic dynamics. The production and consumption of scientific and technical information play a preponderant role in modern economic systems, predetermining the place of individual countries and regions in the world economic division of labor, causing radical changes in the nature, content and forms of the social work and having a decisive impact on the nature, pace and sources of economic growth. Thus, the formation of the information technology mode of production, which is replacing the industrial one, poses for modern science the problem of a comprehensive understanding of the processes of production and consumption of information, as well as their social movement in the economy system. World economic relations. The globalization of information production and the participation in the production processes of ever new layers of scientific and technical information created in society require greater attention to the logic of modern economic growth, the study of feedback in the economy and its conscious use in the process. State regulation of the production of scientific knowledge.
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