The Future of Work in Information Society: Political-Economic Arguments (SpringerBriefs in Economics)

Andrzej Piotr Wierzbicki

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2016-05-11
  • 售價: $2,350
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$2,233
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 72
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 3319339087
  • ISBN-13: 9783319339085
  • 相關分類: 經濟學 Economy
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商品描述

This book investigates the question as to whether technological developments will ultimately mean the end of work and, if so, what the consequences will be. The author addresses this question from the perspective of a technologist well versed in econometrics and game theory, and argues that it is not technology alone that could lead to the end of work, but its utilization by the capitalist system. Technology allows us to minimize the costs of work and increase profits, while the system is worsening unemployment, socio-economic inequality and stratification – which could lead to the end of capitalism in a massive global revolution.

As such, the book proposes an evolutionary reform based on a seemingly minor but in fact essential correction of the corporate income tax, which he proposes should decrease in accordance with the percentage of the enterprise’s revenues expended to pay employee salaries. In this way, entrepreneurs will be motivated to implement new professions and occupations, as well as new workplaces. Only in this way, the book argues, can reforms be used to prevent the end of work, which would have catastrophic consequences.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書探討了科技發展是否最終將意味著工作的結束,以及如果是這樣,其後果將會是什麼。作者從一位精通計量經濟學和博弈論的技術專家的角度回答了這個問題,並主張單靠科技本身並不能導致工作的結束,而是資本主義體制對科技的利用。科技使我們能夠降低工作成本並增加利潤,而體制則加劇了失業、社會經濟不平等和階層化的問題,這可能導致資本主義在一場大規模的全球革命中結束。

因此,這本書提出了一種基於看似微小但實際上至關重要的企業所得稅修正的演化性改革方案,作者建議企業所得稅應根據企業收入用於支付員工薪資的百分比而下降。通過這種方式,企業家將受到激勵去實施新的職業和工作場所。這本書認為,只有通過這種方式,改革才能被用來防止工作的結束,否則將會帶來災難性的後果。