By Jean Gadrey
The 'new economic climate' has been criticised vastly of past due, and after the idea and hype that surrounded the web bubble, this can be hardly ever superb. This booklet, first released in French and up-to-date the following, besides the fact that treats the 'new financial system' as a discourse - one who is frequently deceptive. that allows you to comprehend what occurred in the course of the web bubble and the fuss that surrounded it, a significant aspect - highbrow hypothesis - has to be understood. New economic system, New fable treats this hypothesis as a sort of 'ultra-free-market' pondering. in keeping with this line of concept, the web and the electronic revolution are appearing as a kind of computer virus in spreading marketplace deregulation around the globe. With rather a lot having been written concerning the new financial system, this e-book employs a mix of educational rigour and readable prose and is derived as a welcome reduction. it is going to be an interesting examining to these drawn to the web bubble - and the hyperbole that surrounded it.
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6 millions jobs the thirty leading occupations are projected to create between 1996 and 2006. 1). This does not mean, of course, that these technologies are not being widely diffused in New technologies, new growth? 27 our societies and having a profound effect on work and production. However, the teachers, researchers, doctors, nurse or counter clerks who use information technology are not being transformed into IT specialists. ) and to the employment and working conditions and inequalities of access and control that characterise their diffusion in our societies.
Furthermore, even if telecommunications systems were installed and accessible, without literacy and basic computer skills people will have little access to the network society. 22 Above all, the most urgent needs of developing countries are not informational needs. Access to information may help developing countries to respond more appropriately to their urgent needs but, allowing for exceptions, it is not part of those needs. ‘Information is only one of many needs. ’23 There is even a danger that large-scale high-tech projects, driven forward particularly by large companies from the North and the governments that act on their behalf, 40 New technologies, new growth?
New technologies, new growth? 29 The impact of the new technologies on productivity Are ICTs leading the way into a new era of high productivity gains after several decades of ‘a slowing down of productivity gains’? Have we succeeded, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, in overcoming the infamous ‘productivity paradox’ that was expressed by Robert Solow in the following terms: ‘we see computers everywhere, except in the productivity statistics’? The paradox was not an insignificant one: during the 1980s, and indeed until the mid-1990s, the American economy saw a decline in its labour productivity gains, despite the fact that it was the developed economy with by far the highest rate of diffusion of information and communications technologies in its productive system.