information technology and the new economy

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE WORLD ECONOMY∗ doc

... Europe and the former Soviet Union, North Africa and the Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The fourteen major economies include the G7 economies listed above and the developing and transition ... Timmer, and Ypma (2003, updated 2005). 15See Jorgenson and Motohashi (2005). 16WITSA stands for the World Information Technology and Services Alliance. Other important sources of data include the ... Input, and Productivity. The final step in our analysis of the world growth resurgence is to describe and characterize the levels of output, input, and productivity for the world economy, the...

Tài liệu Research " The Dissertation Committee for Fang Yin Certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: Business Value of Information Technology in the Internet Economy " doc

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... than a thousand companies and reveals some interesting results. The third essay applies the model developed in the second essay to study the difference in the adoption and pay-off of the Internet ... it actually handled inventory and the delivery of the products during the 1998-1999 time period. The correlation between the two labor measures is calculated. The log values of these two measures ... and processes. They categorized firms based on whether they are purely Internet based, the type of goods sold (digital or tangible), and the type of electronic 16labor, and where t is the...

Information Technology and the Forest Sector ppt

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... Recommended catalogue entry: Information Technology and the Forest Sector. Report by the IUFRO Task Force on Information Technology and the Forest Sector,” jointly organized by the International Union ... to the study: The first and perhaps most significant finding of the study is the decline in penetration of traditional media including newspapers, TV and radio and the concurrent rise in the ... provider and 34by the owner or manager, the availability of resources, and the attitude to and knowledge and acceptance of technology by employees. Externally, the decision to adopt the Internet...

Shanghaied - The Economic and Political Implications of the Flow of Information Technology and Investment Across the Taiwan Strait ppt

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... passenger trips between the offshore islands and FujianProvince, including 144,234 from the offshore islands to the mainland, and 8,200 from the mainland to the offshore islands as of February 29,2004 ... between the two offshore islands and the mainland. As part ofthat expansion of the mini-three links, the Taiwanese government alsoexpanded the list of products that the offshore islands can ... because of the fundamental role they play in information technology and high -technology weaponry. They view the development of the semiconductor industry as being vital to economic development and national...

Bringing in the Excluded? Aesthetic labour, skills and training in the ‘new’ economy doc

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... for these jobs is limited. On the onehand, not enough account is made of the importance of these jobs, and on the otherthere is a lack of sensitivity about the range of skills needed in these ... lattes and cappuccinos at the style bars, cafe´s and restaurants. And they will want these places, its hardware (that is the physicalenvironment) and software (that is the people serving them), ... carerather than work and, supported by welfare, are the residually unemployed.) In the past, the Wise Group focused on the tweakers. However, the UK now has fulleremployment and thus the client...

Research " After the Outsourcing: Networks, Institutions, and the New Old Economy " potx

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The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future_1 potx

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... alargeautomaker’spa-nels,softlymakecontact and thenbouncebacktoward the centerof the tunnel.As the lightstouch the panel,weno-ticethattheydimslightlywhile the panelitselfpulseswith new energy. New carshavebeenpurchased, and atransferofwealthhastakenplace.Weknowthatanaturalcycleexistswithin the tunnel.Almostinstantly,wecanseethatmanythousandsoflightsscattered ... way“takingover.”There is little attention given to the moremundane and immediatethreatsto the jobmarket and the overall economy.  Perhaps the technologists just assumethat once the technology ... littlemorebrightly.Theseare the employeesof the automakerbeingrefreshedwith new light.Anothertransferofwealthhastakenplace. The autoworkersinturnmakepurchasesfromotherbusiness,small and large, and the lightcontin-uestoparadethrough the tunnel.We also know that behind the walls of the tunnelthere are more businesses and interconnections...

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... mayhaveactuallyin-creasedforatime,astheywereabletolowertheirprices.Asaresult,theirprofits, and therefore the wealthoftheirtopemployees and shareholdersincreased.Thesewere the brighterlightsin the tunnelthatinitiallybecamestronger.However,asnearlyallbusinessesin the tunnelcontinuedtoautomatejobs,atsomepoint the decreasein the num-berofpotentialcustomersbeganto ... biotechnology and genetics could be considered atype of information science because it is focused on cataloging and understanding the information inourDNA. THE LIGHTS IN THE ... on the seconddayyouhavetwocents and thenfourcentson the thirdday, and soon. The firstcharton the nextpageshows the firstfifteendaysasourpennydoubles.Youcanseethatwestartoutvery slowly and then...

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... hasquicklyattracted the noticeof the Securities and ExchangeCommission and mayresultin new regulation.Astheseexamplesshow,wecanexpectthat the rateofchange and the volatilityofnearlyeverythingarounduswill ... showsquiteclearlythat the new jobtypescreatedby technology areveryoftenthemselvesquickly vaporized by the samephenomenon. The IT jobsthat are now being offshored and automated are brand new ... madeevenmorechallengingby the factthat the objectscouldbeinmanypossibleorientationsorconfigurations.Consider the simplecaseofapairofsunglassessittingonatable. The sunglassesmightbeclosedwith the lensesfacingdown,orwith the lensesup.Orperhaps the glassesareopen with the lenses oriented vertically. Or maybe one side of the glassesisopen and the other closed. And, ofcourse, the glassescouldberotatedinanydirection. And perhapstheyare...

The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future_4 pptx

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... demand will in-crease, and the economy will therefore produce moregoods and services.Inotherwords, the samenumberofworkerswillbeemployedbuttheywillproducemore.32 The ... collating and faxing in-formation. The intellectualportionof the job—eitherap-provingordenying the loan—isprobablyalreadyessential-lyhandledbyacomputer.Throughout the economy, there*Formoreonrobotics and itspotentialimpactonemployment and on ... food—all of these and countlessthousandsofotherstructures and chemicalsthatcompriseourbodies and make usfunctionareproteins. And theyareallconstructedthroughnanotechnology.Itislikelythat the coming“nanotech”revolutionwillbegin...

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... within their capabilities, then how willthey acquire the income necessary to create the demandthatinturndrivesproduction?Ifweconsider the singular-ityinthiscontext,thenisitreallysomethingthatwillnec-essarilypushusforwardexponentially?Orcoulditinac-tualityleadtorapideconomicdecline?** The technologistswhospeculateabout the singularitydon’tseemtooconcerned ... shouldersofAmerican and Europeanconsumers. And aswehavenotedagain and againinthisbook,thoseWesternconsumersalldependonjobs.Ifautomationbe-ginstodramaticallyimpactemploymentinChina,whileat the sametimedemanddwindlesin the West and certain-lyif the catastrophiceventdescribed at the beginning ofthischapteroccurs—thenthiseconomicperpetualmotionmachineisgoingtocollapse.Givenallthis,whatcanwereallysayabout the futureofChina?Nearlyafourthof the world’spopulationlivesinChina;therefore,thereisnodoubtthatthiscountrywillcontinuetohavesignificant, and perhapsincreasing,influ-encein the decadestocome.However,simplyextrapolat-ingcurrenttrendsisveryunlikelytogiveanaccuratepro-jection.Chinaisgoingtobeheavilyimpactedbyaccelerat-ing ... purchasing the goods they are producing. Oreveniftheycanaffordtobuythoseproducts,theyareun-likelytodo sobecausetheyaremuchmoreinterestedin THE LIGHTS IN THE TUNNEL...

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... todecline.Rememberthatwearetalkinghereaboutaverageworkers.Toget the graphabove,youmighttake the dis-tributionofincomesin the UnitedStates and thenelimi-nateboth the richest and the poorestpeople.Thengraph the averageincomeof the remaining“typical”people (the bulk of consumers) ... byindustries,productionbecomesmoreefficient.Thisresultsinsomelossofjobs,butitalsoresultsinlowerpricesforgoods and services.Inotherwords,itputsmoremoneyinconsumers’ pockets. These consumers then go out and buyallkindsof things, and so the resultisincreasedde-mandfor the productsproducedbyalltypesofindustries.Some ... jobsthatwilltakeadvantageofthosenewlyacquiredskills. Future technology willresultin the creationofentirely new industries, and theseindustrieswilloffer new em-ployment opportunities....

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... elimi-nates the jobsthatprovideincometoconsumers. The es-sentialideaisthatweshouldimposesomecombinationofaconsumptiontax and/ oraspecialdirecttaxonbusinessthatcaptures the incomewhich,inanon-automatedecon-omy,wouldbepaidoutinwages.Overtime,as the wagespaidtoaverageworkersdecrease(asapercentageofreve-nue),thesetaxeswouldbegraduallyincreasedtorecaptureatleastaportionofthisincome. The overallobjectiveistorecapturejust the optimalamountofincome and thengetitinto the handsofconsumerssothattherewillbesuffi-cientconsumerdemandtocontinuedriving the economy. Once the income ... unless there is either existing market de-mandor the reasonableexpectationofsuchdemandin the foreseeablefuture. The idea that productionrespondstodemandisoneof the definingcharacteristicsofcapitalism.Removing ... corruptionamongofficialsin the country.Thesepeopleveryoftenactprimarilyfortheirownbenefit and, inparticular,inwaysthat preserve theirpositions and power—rather thanfor the benefitoftheircountryasawhole.In the finalanaly-sis,...

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... havestrongeducations and training.Thesepeoplearebeneficia-riesof the information age.On the toxicwastelandsideof the fence, are relatively unskilled workers. These people THE LIGHTS IN THE ... dramaticallynegative.In the UnitedStates,twothirdsofworkers and thereforeconsumers—donothaveacollegedegree.Whileeffortstoimproveeducation and trainingarelaudable, the realityisthatthisisnotlikelytooffset the impactofgeo-metricallyaccelerating technology. Infact,Ithinkthat the THE LIGHTS IN THE TUNNEL ... Wecanexpectthattechnologicaladvancewillgiverisetoentirely new industriesin the future.However, the realityisthatfewifanyofthesearelikelytobelaborintensive.Bytheirverynature,these new industrieswilltendtorelyon information technology and will offer relatively...

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... acentrallyplanned economy,  and perhaps most chillingly, the overthrow of govern-ments and a“dictatorshipof the proletariat.”In the wakeof the collapse of communism, these ideas ... 38RobertJ.Shapiro,Futurecast:howsuperpowers,populations, and globaliza-tionwillchange the wayyoulive and work, New York,St.Martin’sPress,2008.39ThomasL.Friedman, The WorldisFlat:ABriefHistoryof the TwentyFirstCentury, New York,Farrar,Strause and Giroux,2005,2006.40China’shighsavingrate the resultofgovernmentpolicy,see:Ea-monnFingleton,In the Jawsof the Dragon:America’sFatein the ComingEraofChineseHegemony, New York,St.Martin’sPress,2008.41PietraRivoli, The TravelsofaT-Shirtin the Global Economy: AnEcono-mistExamines the Markets,Power and PoliticsofWorldTrade,JohnWiley and Sons, New York,2005,p40.42Ibid.p142.43JeffRubin and BenjaminTal,“WillSoaringTransportCostsRe-verseGlobalization?,”CIBCWorldMarketsStrategEcon,March27,2008.Web:http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/about/pdfs/oil.pdf44Revenueperemployeenumbers.Source:GoogleFinance,basedon2008revenue.45“…growthwithoutjobcreation.”, The Economist,August11,2003.Web:http://www.economist.com/agenda/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=198588946Huether,David, The Caseof the MissingJobs,BusinessWeek,April3,2006.Web:http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_14/b3978116.htm47Technicallythismightbebettercalled“regressive”or“reversepro-gressive”since the deductionishigheratlowerwagelevels.However,thosewordshavenegativeconnotations…48FareedZackaria, The FutureofFreedom:IlliberalDemocracyatHome and Abroad, New York,W.W.Norton&Co.,2003,p.172-173.Notes ... Marx The centralthesisofthisbookisthat,as technology acce-lerates, machine automationmay ultimately penetrate the economy to the extent thatwages no longer provide the bulkofconsumerswithadequatediscretionaryincome and confidencein the future.Ifthisissueisnotaddressed, the resultwillbeadownwardeconomicspiral.Itmustbeacknowledgedthatthisideaisquitesimilarto the predictionsthatweremadebyKarlMarxin the midtolate1800s.Marxpredictedthatcapitalismwouldsufferfrom...

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