EASET - 2026

 

The purpose of the Symposium is to analyze the viability and determine the directions of development of economic theory for designing a new architecture of scientific global collaboration.

 

The plenary session, thematic sections, and round tables will focus on generating constructive responses to critical inquiries: How can we reconsider classical heritage considering the new normal? How do different schools of economic thought explain the process of transformation of economic relations? How can the scientific community build a sustainable, inclusive and relevant economic science of the future?

 

The event aims to establish a unified platform to facilitate productive discussion of innovative concepts and the formulation of novel guidelines for economic research.

 

 

The key areas of discussion

1. Crisis as a source of evolutionary development of economic theory

2. Economic shocks and their reflection in the history of economic thought

3. The New Normal: the costs of development

4. Mainstream and Heterodox economics: the dialectic of development and competitive cooperation

5. Constructing New-order socio-economic systems: Orthodox and heterodox approaches

6. Contemporary political economy: potential for the development of economic theory

7. The digital revolution, artificial intelligence and new rules of the game in economic theory

8. Institutional concepts of technological transformation of society

9. The new content of labour and the creative economy development

10. Empirical findings on inequality and equity.

11. Green economy: technologies and investments in the future

12. The knowledge economy as a progressive basis for the development of society.

13. The monopoly of the mainstream or the competitive communication of theories in economic education

14. Globalization and regionalization: a dialogue of civilizations

15. Modern social system: contradictions of the late capitalism evolution

 

 

The round tables of discussion

1. Theory of Regional Economics 2.0: the contribution of New Economic Geography

2. The Economic thought of the Urals in the 19th century

3. AlterEconomics: Global challenges to theoretical research

4. Using Generative AI Models for Editing and Translating Scientific Texts: Economy & Quality

 

 

Important dates

Start Registration:  December 10, 2025
Start of submission of manuscripts: January 15, 2026
Submission of manuscript DEADLINE: May 15, 2026

 

Conference languages: Russian, English

Form of participation: face-to-face/ remote (via videoconference)

Language of the conference materials:

for a collection of scientific articles indexed in the elibrary.ru - Russian, English

for the AlterEconomics journal - Russian, English

 

The venue of the symposium: Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 29 Moskovskaya St., Yekaterinburg, Russia