Jonathan Haskel is professor of economics at Imperial College Business School.
Stian Westlake is a senior fellow at Nesta, the UK’s national foundation for innovation. Haskel and Westlake are cowinners of the 2017 Indigo Prize.
AI导读
核心看点
揭示无形资产投资已超越有形资产,重塑现代经济结构。
剖析无形资产四大特性:可扩展、沉没、溢出及协同效应。
从无形资产视角解释经济停滞、不平等加剧及GDP失真问题。
读者共识
条理清晰且具人文关怀,是理解当代资本主义转型的重要读物。
深刻指出传统GDP统计无法衡量无形资产,存在明显局限性。
部分读者认为内容略显枯燥或重复,但整体洞见极具启发性。
精彩摘录
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"It is possible that the increase in intangible investment is concealing a rise in rent-seeking investments that do not increase GDP......It is conceivable that in a poorly governed economy, the amount of intangibles whose purpose is to attract rents goes up."
"But in fact, the value of property, especially the kinds of property that have risen most dramatically in value over the last thirty years, derives to a great extent from intangibles."
"........cities that relied on single industries,......tended to do less well in the modern age that cities with a range of industries. Glaeser called these "Jacobs spillovers," in honor of Jane Jacobs, the urbanist and defender of messy, unplanned cities."
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用户评论
No 5 of 2020 . 读这本书的感觉就像在读论文,相对比较通俗易懂的学术著作,讲了在当今社会无形资产的对社会各方面的影响和重要性。从其定义发展讲起,阐明了四个基本特征;这四个特征对经济和社会结构的影响以及国家政策制定者的挑战;然后建议公司应该如何对待无形资产,从管理层到投资领域的调整;最后对政策制定者的建议。 总体而言,比较容易理解,而且对当今社会的资本流向和整体影响有一个更好的宏观概念。