丸山の講義補助

Contents for Higher Education for Sustainable Development

(第3章)自らの技術革新で成長するか、借り物をコピー改善か

今回は、経済発展を中心とした教科書第3章です。でも講義では、前回扱った内容である各種格差と教育の関係と、経済資本・社会関係資本文化資本の話を改めて確認しておきます。その上で、技術革新について中心的に扱います。テクノロジーの観点は、SDの論点でも重要です。

The Age of Sustainable Development

The Age of Sustainable Development

 

I. 近代経済の話

II.英国での産業革命 

III.技術革新

  • "Endogenous" growth: "endogenous" means something that arises from within a system, rather than from the outside. Endogenous growth means economic advancement that emerges from the internal workings of the economy...
  • There is a second kind of economic growth, the growth of a "lagged" country that for whatever reasons of history, politics, and geography lagged behind as the technological leaders charged ahead. (p.79)
  • Catch-up growth can be considerably faster than endogenous growth. Technological leaders have tended to grow at around 1-2 percent per capita, while the fastest catching-up countries (like South Korea and China) have enjoyed per capita GDP growth of 5-10 percent per annum. 
  • The failure to recognize the fundamental differences between endogenous growth and catch-up growth has led to all sorts of confusion in the discussion of economic development...The first is based on innovation; the second on rapid adoption and diffusion of existing (though mostly foreign) technologies.

IV. 経済成長の拡散

V. 第二次大戦後の経済発展:グローバル化