Industry 4.0: Opportunities and Challenges for the World Economy
The article is devoted to the review of trends, features and problems of the fourth industrial revolution discussed at the conference held on November 14, 2017 at the Economics Faculty of Moscow State University. During the discussion, the following issues were raised: the correlation of phenomena Industry 4.0 and the digital economy; display of Industry 4.0 in the energy sector: the limits of growth; is there a future for the globalization of the world economy; smart technologies as a key element in industrial competition; Crypto currency as the locomotive of the current stage of the world economy’s financialization; intellectual challenges and paradoxes of the digital revolution; concept and world practice of the sharing economy; new social challenges and the future of the labor market in the context of «Industry 4.0».