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 ECONOMIC THEORY

 

 

 

Pliskevich Natalya

Ph.D. (Economics), leading researcher

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Institute of economics of the Russian Academy of sciences (Moscow)

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CONCEPTUAL SPACE FOR RESEARCHING OF THE TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES

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This article devotes the problem of expanding the conceptual space of transformation processes in the current context of socioeconomic turbulence felt worldwide. Two sources of this turbulence are identified. First, a new surge in scientific and technological progress has disrupted the law of techno-humanitarian balance, which stipulates that the sustainable development of society requires a correspondence between the level of cultural and psychological regulation of social relations and the state of technological potential. The second source of turbulence is the ongoing process of post-socialist transformation in many countries. An explanation for these processes does not fit into the linear frameworks of hybrid regimes. Acemoglu / Robinson, on the one hand, and Magyar / Madlovic, on the other, have proposed two-dimensional frameworks for analyzing conceptual spaces. However, Magyar / Madlovic's triangular framework is limited to the area of European post-socialist countries, and one of Acemoglu / Robinson's Leviathans does not fit into their framework adequately. The article proposes a quadrangular framework for the space of transformation processes, which also includes room for development options missed in triangular frameworks.

 

Keywords: techno-humanitarian balance, transformation processes, institutional system, post-socialist development, modern state

JEL: A10, A12, A13, B15, B52

UDC: 303.022, 303.093.3

DOI: 10.52342/2587-7666VTE_2026_2_68_85

 

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Manuscript submission date: 21.02.2026

Manuscript acceptance date: 23.04.2026

 

For citation: Pliskevich N. Conceptual Space for Researching of the Transformation Processes // Voprosy teoreticheskoy ekonomiki. 2026. No. 2. Pp. 68–85. DOI: 10.52342/2587-7666VTE_2026_2_68_85.