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Maarit Jaakkola, Gauti Sigthorsson, Kenneth Andresen
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The ambiguous term ‘‘new economy’’, and its near-pseudonyms ‘‘information economy’’ and ‘‘knowledge-based economy’’ present huge challenges to empirical researchers. From a distance, the idea of a new economy seems simple, inviting easy sweeping generalizations, but the closer you approach it to try to take its measurements, map its reach, or plot its growth, the more it dissolves into nebulousness. Attempts to define its boundaries in relation to the ‘‘old economy’’ are fraught with difficulties. Some are based on fairly crude posthoc distinctions (e.g. ‘‘the NASDAQ industries’’) which turn out, on closer examination, to have little underlying logic. Others err in the opposite direction and, in their attempts to operationalize abstract notions of what the informatization process consists of, run the risk of creating complex typologies which are extremely difficult, if not impossible, to map onto the real world. In either case, any definition, or at least any definition which makes reference to specific technological infrastructures, processes, products, or delivery media, is likely to become rapidly outdated in the light of continuing technological change. Industrial Sunset compares the processes of industrial transformation and eventual decline in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States between 1969 and 1984. Through an examination of two cities on either side of the border – Youngstown and Detroit and Hamilton and Windsor – readers are offered a skillful analysis of economic decline and how workers, their unions, and their communities responded to job loss. The book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on de-industrialization. skillfully
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模棱两可的术语“新经济”及其近乎笔名的“信息经济”和“知识经济”给实证研究者带来了巨大的挑战。从远处看,新经济的概念似乎很简单,很容易概括,但你越接近它,试图测量它,绘制它的范围,或绘制它的增长,它就越变得模糊。试图界定其与“旧经济”之间的界限充满了困难。有些是基于相当粗糙的后置区分(例如“纳斯达克工业”),经过更仔细的检查,发现这些区分几乎没有潜在的逻辑。另一些人则在相反的方向上犯了错误,他们试图将信息化过程的抽象概念付诸实践,冒着创建复杂类型学的风险,这些类型学即使不是不可能,也极难映射到现实世界。在这两种情况下,任何定义,或者至少任何涉及特定技术基础设施、过程、产品或交付媒介的定义,都可能在持续的技术变革中迅速过时。《工业日落》比较了1969年至1984年间加拿大和美国五大湖地区工业转型和最终衰落的过程。通过对边界两侧的两个城市——扬斯敦和底特律,汉密尔顿和温莎——的考察,读者可以熟练地分析经济衰退,以及工人、工会和社区如何应对失业。这本书对有关去工业化的文献作出了宝贵的贡献。巧妙地
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审稿时长
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