Technical Economic Function And Economic Growth

Samuel Butler had a famous saying: chicken is just a way that an egg manufactures anotheregg. Biological functions is not even to produce another creature, but its gene. The human societyhas its "genes", that is production technology. The ups and downs of this world were only a pieceof historical clouds, the things being preserved is technological heritage.Until now the era from the earliest records of human, technological progress has been thedominant phenomenon in human life.“No technology, no economy.” For a long time, peoplealways regard technological progress as a matter of course, and thus we lack research. Intechnology, China once led the world, and was behind the West in Modern time. The direct resultwas poverty, weakness and humiliation for one hundred years. The technology can so direct a stateand society that can explain a truth: technology has powerful features nature. Historically,technology has two major functions: military and economic functions.At present the study of the economic functions of technology is relatively inadequate, theresearch of mechanism of technological progress also requires deepening, and the study of therelationship between technological progress and economic growth needs to be developed on thebasis of criticism much more.First, technology has different functions in different historical stages historically. From"Modern time"(the late15th and early16th century), the main economic function of technologywas to couple capital and labor together and make firms. This article first puts forward the view oftechnology coupling concerning the origin of firms, and demonstrates that technology is thecontrol variable of firm size. Related article will be published in Studies in Science of Science.Second, within the firms or in economic body, the nonlinear interaction among technology,capital and labor may break the old structure, and form a new structure. This article uses theBrusselator model to demonstrate the mathematical conditions with which economic structure canrealize transition. It has theoretical significance to the upgrade of industrial structure in the newperiod. Related article has been published in Technology Economics.Third, it has been a difficult problem to reflect how technological progress runs among economic growth. This article deduces mathematically the relationship between technology paceand rate of economic growth based on Marxist labor theory of value, and combined with theprinciple proposed by researcher Qi Jianguo, the principle is that producer surplus will decreasewhile consumer surplus increases in the diffusion of new technology. Related article will bepublished soon.As traditional analytical tools are difficult to characterize the technological phenomenon, andthe introduction of new analytical tools and the establishment of the new analysis ideas also need alot of work, including measurement of technologies, Technology Economics is still underconstruction. However, the technology is the most active in the world today, the most decisiveforce, so Technology Economics will thrive too.