From: gerald_a_levy (gerald_a_levy@msn.com)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 08:58:11 EST
An article of interest for Paul A and other participants in this thread: Eric Itzkin's "How to Compete in the Perpetual Information Economy" http://general.rau.ac.za/infosci/raujournal/vol2.nr1.01_07_2000/default.asp?to=peer1 The section "Perpetual innovation economy" attempts to explain and evaluate Marx's perspective, as well those of contemporary writers such as Tessa Morris-Suzuki, on value and automation. Topics such as changing skill requirements, the shortening of the product cycle, and the shifting role of product and process innovations are also discussed. If you are not familiar with it, another source of note is _Cutting Edge: Technology, Information Capitalism and Social Revolution edited by Jim Davis (who has participated in this thread), Thomas A Hirschl and Michael Stack. For description see http://www.gocatgo.com/ce/cuttingedge.html and http://www.gocatgo.com/ce/intro.html which is the "Introduction" to _Cutting Edge_. Also note extracts in "IT Revolution Forum" http://sankalpa.tripod.com/future/s3itrev.html and Michael Kenney's article "Value Creation in the Late Twentieth Century: the Rise of the Knowledge Worker" http://hcd.ucdavis.edu/faculty/kenney/valuecreation.html Solidarity, Jerry
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