Technology and economic theory
探讨技术在经济学中被忽视的本质,认为技术不仅是生产约束,更是物质、能量和信息转换过程,并分析技术发展与应用在时间和空间上不均衡的原因。
Technology and technological change play a central role in economics, whether in the theory of resource allocation or in the theory of growth and development. Yet the nature of technology is largely ignored in economic theory, it being considered sufficient to treat technology as a constraint on productive opportunities. This short essay delves a little deeper into the nature of technology and the material, energy and information transformation processes that it represents. A deeper understanding of technology leads to a deeper understanding of the main currents of technological advance and to the reasons why the development of technology and its application are so uneven over time and place.