The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy
Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, fr...
The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy
Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, from tech firms and pharma companies to coffee shops and gyms, the ability to deploy assets that one can neither see nor touch is increasingly the main source of long-term success.
But this is not just a familiar story of the so-called new economy. Capitalism without Capital shows that the growing importance of intangible assets has also played a role in some of the big economic changes of the last decade. The rise of intangible investment is, Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake argue, an underappreciated cause of phenomena from economic inequality to stagnating productivity.
Haskel and Westlake bring together a decade of research on how to measure intangible investment and its impact on national accounts, showing the amount different countries invest in intangibles, how this has changed over time, and the latest thinking on how to assess this. They explore the unusual economic characteristics of intangible investment, and discuss how these features make an intangible-rich economy fundamentally different from one based on tangibles.
Capitalism without Capital concludes by presenting three possible scenarios for what the future of an intangible world might be like, and by outlining how managers, investors, and policymakers can exploit the characteristics of an intangible age to grow their businesses, portfolios, and economies.
作者简介
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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.
Baruch Lev, a professor of accounting at New York University, wrote an influential book on how companies should manage and account for this new class of inverstment [Lev 2001]. (查看原文)
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。
387-Capitalism Without Capital-Jonathan Haskel-Economics-2017 Barack 2021/12/13 《Capitalism Without Capital》，首版于2017年。它汇集了十年来关于如何衡量无形投资及其对国民账户影响的研究，展示了不同国家对无形资产的投资额、随着时间的推移如何变化，以及如何评估...
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0 有用 小实 2018-03-22 00:43:19
无形资产投资的特点、经济后果及政策应对。非常深刻的分析，有很多洞见。
0 有用 子珂 2023-10-26 08:33:36 湖南
对于bitcoiner来说，这本书还是有点太保守了...
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0 有用 桂花香生活 2020-01-19 14:33:19
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。
1 有用 恶趣味多美 2018-10-18 23:54:03
很规范的学术作品，条理清晰，内容充实。读起来十分舒服，读罢方才深切体会到GDP统计数字的indication的局限且“失真”，而面对无形资产的4s特点所导致其非常dynamic甚至有点玄妙以至于难以检验的现状，让人不禁期待这样的一个测量标准早日出来