Abstract

Two approaches to a new factor of production – information – are defined. The modern system of factors of production and income, in which information is the only resource that can have unlimited number of participants of the global economy, is represented. It is proved that information activity has a number of features which distinguish it from other activities due to specific of new kind of social division of labor. The essence of the phenomenon of asymmetric information and information situations that arise during negotiations and making bargains is analyzed. Classification of information asymmetry on different criteria is proposed. Actions to prevent threats to information are proposed. It is determined that the availability of the information resources deficit can not be regarded as a question of it’s "non-participation" in global development. The statement of the problem under the new ideology of the current stage of globalization is the presence of fixing the problem, whose solution is the key element of forms, rates of entering the country in the new world structure.