Post-industrial economy

The post-industrial economy or post-industrial company , sometimes named Nouvelle economy is the current type of economy and company of the developed countries, resting much less on the agricultural Industrial production and that in the previous centuries. The expression was creates by Alvin Toffler, or Daniel Bell.

Characteristics of the post-industrial economy

The post-industrial economy comprises several essential characteristics:

  • the physical productions (Agriculture and Industry) there lose their preeminence with the profit of the Tertiary sector (services).
  • the development is based more and more on the Connaissance, the creativity and the Information, become the new raw materials of the modern economy (economy of the knowledge) and forms it of capital most required (Capital-knowledge).

One could add to it like third characteristic the constitution of an economy on world bases (economic Mondialisation) without to remove the local competitive advantages resting more and more on the concept of Pôle of competence having a Compétitivité, even a leadership on a world level in a precise economic domain.

A fourth characteristic is the constraint of Sustainable development, which, on the level of the companies, results in the responsibility sociétale.

The philosopher Michel Foucault thinks that the passage to the post-industrial economy corresponds to a change of design of the world (épistémè). He calls the post-industrial period the Hypermodernité.

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