Digital economy as a result of information revolutions

The article presents the author's view on the emergence of the digital economy in the context of the prevailing economic theories, based on an analysis of the processes of information revolution. Information revolutions are considered as points of bifurcation using the concepts of cumulative and transformational stages of development of society. The author tried to build the genesis of the development of economic knowledge based on the work of the Nobel laureates in the field of economics, which contributed to the emergence of the digital economy.