The New Economy?

Here are the first paragraphs of my third article on Economics of Growth.

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The New Economy (NE) is one of those expressions people use, sometimes not thinking about its wider meaning. There have been other NEs over the centuries; the NE is not just today’s information and communications technology (ICT) and biotech firms, but also yesterday’s heavy industrial businesses – that first allowed mass production and made possible changes towards a Social Security system and consumer credit –, plus before yesterday’s ventures, representing deep structural changes.
But it is true that nowadays Economy is strongly driven by what computers and communications technologies can deliver, and it is nice to think of our time as a golden age. In fact, for example, the Internet did reduce Planet Earth to pixels in a web browser, and mobile phones do have more computing power than the machines that computed Apollo XI’s travel to the Moon… meaning that the current pace of innovation and the processing power available to the end-user are without precedent!

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A versão integral deste artigo está disponível nos formatos PDF e LIT. O formato LIT é dedicado a todos os que pretendam ler o texto a partir de computadores de bolso, como o Compaq IPAQ ou qualquer outro dispositivo com o software Microsoft Reader.

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You might enjoy reading the following book(s):

title: World Orders, Old and New
publisher: Pluto Press @UK | Columbia University Press @US
author: Noam Chomsky

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title: Old Order and a New: The Split World of Liam O'Flaherty's Novels
publisher: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis @UK | Coronet Books @US
author: Hedda Friberg

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