У дисертаційній роботі показано, що в процесі розгортання четвертої промислової революції у високорозвиненій економіці об'єктивно складаються умови для переходу процесу реального усуспільнення виробництва на принципово новий рівень історичного розвитку. Розкрито історичну тенденцію до кардинальної зміни у ХХІ ст. внутрішньої логіки трансформаційних процесів у високорозвиненій економіці. Проведено категоріальне розмежування капіталістичного способу виробництва і, з іншого боку, капіталістичного способу розвитку, представленого в сучасних умовах у найбільш чистому вигляді інформаційно-інноваційними компаніями. Розроблено теоретико-методологічні принципи дослідження капіталістичного способу розвитку як специфічно історичної форми поєднання творчої й підприємницької діяльності. Проведено аналіз історичних перспектив розвитку капіталістичних відносин у ХХІ ст., який показує, що капіталістичний спосіб розвитку здатний і надалі служити ефективною економічною формою створення та подальшої еволюції адекватного технологічного базису зрілого постіндустріального суспільства в процесі «цифрової» трансформації високорозвиненої економіки. Сформовано методологічні основи теоретичного дослідження суб'єкт-об'єктної моделі керованого економічного розвитку й можливостей її застосування в Україні.^UThe dissertation presents theoretical and methodological bases of the analysis of transformation processes in highly developed economy. It shows that in the process of the deployment of the fourth industrial revolution in a highly developed economy, conditions are objectively created for the transition of the process of real socialization of production to a fundamentally new level of historical development. The historical tendency towards a radical change in the 21st century in the internal logic of transformation processes in a highly developed economy is revealed. The methodological foundations of the analysis of the historical dialectics of post-industrial transformation of a highly developed economy, opposite to the classical logic of the industrial transformation of the English type, in which the formal subordination of labor to capital became the starting point of the process of real technological transformation, have been developed. This allows us to draw appropriate conclusions for modern Ukraine, which in its own way also follows such a long-outdated logic of classical market transformation, when formal transformations precede real changes. At the same time, it is shown that no matter what scenario of further development is implemented in practice, it is not able to change the main historical trend of post-industrial transformation of a highly developed economy, leading to a gradual strengthening of the social role of relations of free subject-subject communication between people immanent in creativity.It is proved that the basic scheme of the circuit of products and incomes is not a universal, general economic model, but only a specific historical scheme of the industrial circuit, which leaves no room for large-scale automation of production that can become an adequate technological basis for a mature post-industrial society. Based on this, author propose a theoretical approach to the study of the economic nature of universal basic income, in which this new economic form of distribution is considered in the context of historical trends of real transformation of highly developed economy, which provides product and revenue circuit.Methodological bases of the analysis of process of transformation of human activity which are capable to categorically express deep structural character of these changes connected with addition of such structural components of economic activity as economic choice and labor action, elements of creative creation of new alternative opportunities are developed. A consistent categorical distinction between the capitalist mode of production and, on the other hand, the capitalist mode of development, represented in modern conditions in its pure form, is of particular methodological significance for the theoretical analysis of the transformation process of a highly developed economy. information and innovative companies. The theoretical and methodological foundations for the analysis of the capitalist mode of development as a specifically historical form of combining creative and entrepreneurial activity immanent to capitalism have been developed. It is shown that in the 21st century the capitalist mode of development begins to separate from the capitalist mode of production and is increasingly embodied in the innovative activities of high-tech companies, which are primarily related to the information sector of the economy. As carriers of the capitalist mode of development, modern IT companies are seen as the driving force of the fourth industrial revolution, capable of transforming the technological structure of material production. Based on this, it is concluded that in the 21st century, capitalism rises to such a level of its evolution, when it is not unity that comes to the fore, but the opposition between the capitalist mode of production and the mode of development.An analysis of the historical prospects for the development of capitalist relations in the XXI century shows that the capitalist mode of development can continue to serve as an effective economic form of creating and further evolving an adequate technological base of a mature post-industrial society in the "digital" transformation of a highly developed economy.A developed post-industrial society, based on an adequate technological and economic basis, is able to consciously use the capitalist mode of development as a driving force for the further progress of its productive forces. If in the classical model the capitalist mode of production itself spontaneously played the role of the capitalist mode of development, then for the XXI century the historical tendency of gradual transition to the conscious use of the capitalist mode of development by society comes to the fore.