Таранов Петр Владимирович

The economy of a post-industrial society, characterized as a knowledge economy, imposes new requirements on the employee. The employee ceases to be an ordinary structural unit of production. His knowledge, skills and professional characteristics not only determine new trends in economic production, but also form new types of consumer behavior. This article examines the main factors of formation and institutional conditions for the development of human capital in the post-industrial economy. The connection of science, education and information and communication technologies with the economic development of post-industrial society, with a change in the nature of work and the type of employee is noted. The article also considers the human capital index, reflecting the potential of the human capital of countries and, as a result, their competitiveness. Human capital is considered as a key resource for the growth and development of the global economy.

This article contains a socio-economic analysis of the specific features of the globalization of the world economy. The authors consider the general features of the globalization of the world economic system as a multifactorial and multidimensional phenomenon that interacts dialectically with such concepts as internationalization and transnationalization. The paper outlines nine specific features of the globalization of the world economy and identifies some of the factors of the world economy, which result in an increase in growth rates in various countries that are actively involved in the processes of economic globalization. The article concludes that globalization is an objective process and the inevitable process expands and accelerates global interconnections and interdependencies of the socioeconomic economic system.