Economic and Theoretical Aspects of the Structure of the Modern Economy

Abstract

The article analyzed the modern structure of social production. From the standpoint of classical political economy, we demonstrated the traditional division of the economy into the sphere of material production and the non-production sphere. We argue that in the conditions of scientific and technological innovation, it became necessary to differentiate social production into the sphere of material production (the real sector of the economy) and infrastructure. We highlighted the need to identify the production, energy, social, institutional, information, and environmental infrastructural components in the infrastructure complex. We consider that further social development will lead to the emergence of new infrastructural segments of the economy.