ABSTRACT
This editor-in-chief’s column reviews the materials published in Issue 8 (140) of Theoretical Economy in 2026. It shows how the papers contribute to the journal’s concept of theoretical economics by combining fundamental problems with the analysis of current institutional, spatial, technological and global economic transformations. The section on current problems of theoretical economics addresses the economic consequences of alternative theories of justice, the role of macroterritories in spatial strategic planning, the organizational and economic mechanism of financing youth policy, and the evolutionary adaptation of market strategies under sanctions pressure. The new industrialization section discusses the transformation of human capital theory through the fitness industry, econometric analysis of oil-well profitability with limited data, and the transformation of organizational leadership in Russian business. The world economy papers examine artificial intelligence as a factor of regional globalization in the CIS, the impact of integration processes on Western Balkan exports, and strategic directions in China’s passenger-car market. The young researchers section includes studies of internal audit of fixed assets in a machine-building enterprise, assessment of the contribution of Innopolis SEZ software products to technological sovereignty, and human resources policy in the financial sector. The column concludes that institutional quality, adaptation to uncertainty, human capital development and evidence-based economic analysis form cross-cutting themes of the issue.
KEYWORDS
theoretical economy, theoretical aspects of the new industrialization, contemporary problems of the global economy, work of young researchers, new paradigmatic mainstream in socioeconomic research, further development of our concept as a new mainstream, beginning the second 15 years of communication with the journal’s readers