DIGITAL ECONOMY IN THEORETICAL ASPECT
The research of the concept "digital economy" as scientific category in theoretical aspect is presented in article. The relevance of a subject of a research is caused by the fact that until now the scientific community did not develop the complete theory digital economies and is absent uniform definitions of digital economy which would be unambiguous, standard and all-used. A research objective is specification of content of category "digital economy", having defined its essence and having considered approaches to her treatment by various authors. In article the author uses the following methods of scientific research: method of the analysis and synthesis, system method and method of comparison and generalization. For achievement of a goal the analysis of theoretical literature, standard and legal documents, scientific research on the offered subject is carried out. In work the terminological questions relating to justification and specification of conceptual aspect of "digital economy" are taken up. During the research it was revealed that there is a lot of definitions of the concept "digital economy" of scientific literature therefore the author it is offered to group them in three blocks, to each of which to correlate the interpretation categories "digital economy". The author it is offered to consider in the first block category "digital economy" as a studying subject, in the second block - as the economy based on use of digital technologies and in the third - as a socioeconomic system. The author emphasized need of allocation of a digital stage for information technology development which is characterized by mass use of digital technologies in all aspects of production and social activity of society. Author's determination of category "digital economy" is presented. Summing up the result of the conducted research, it should be noted that the content of category "digital economy" will remain for a long time a subject of scientific discussions as process of digitalization in Russia is not complete, evolution of information technologies continues, respectively the contents of the studied term will change.