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 global collaboration.
The plenary session, thematic sections, and round tables will focuson 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
Crisis as a source of evolutionary development of economic theory
Economic shocks and their reflection in the history of economic thought
The New Normal: the costs of development
Mainstream and Heterodox economics: the dialectic of development and competitive cooperation
Constructing New-order socio-economic systems: Orthodox and heterodox approaches
Contemporary political economy: potential for the development of economic theory
The digital revolution, artificial intelligence and new rules of the game in economic theory
Institutional concepts of technological transformation of society
The new content of labour and the creative economy development
Empirical findings on inequality and equity.
Green economy: technologies and investments in the future
The knowledge economy as a progressive basis for the development of society.
The monopoly of the mainstream or the competitive communication of theories in economic education
Globalization and regionalization: a dialogue of civilizations
Modern social system: contradictions of the late capitalism evolution
Important dates
Submission of manuscript DEADLINE: June 15, 2026
Confirmation of participation with speech (from the authors):June 15, 2026
Notification of inclusion of speech in Conference Agenda:June 20, 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., Ekaterinburg, Russia