The paper points to some new aspects in the evolution of the world's economy, where mainly the use of so far unknown or disregarded financial tools leads to brand new situations on various markets and to qualities generally called deformation of the markets. The paper also defines new,...

The first part of the paper formulates the definition of the knowledge and the new economies and two systems of quantitative characteristics for the new economy - the American and the European ones. The knowledge economy can be regarded as a general characteristic of the current and important...