随着信息革命的发展和信息技术的广泛应用,美国、日本等西方发达国家出现了值得密切关注的新的经济形态。这个经济形态,作为未来世界经济的雏形,随着全球信息高速公路的开通,将主导新世纪的世界经济。下面,笔者将就这个经济形态的特征作粗浅的分析。一、新经济是以知识为基础的经济。新经济是基于新科技和人类知识精华的经济形态。在旧经济中,生产、分配、销售是以物质为主要内容的,生产要素主要是资本、自然资源及劳动力等。在新经济中,知识则成为生产、分配和销售的主要内容,知识和拥有知识的劳动 With the development of the information revolution and the extensive application of information technology, the developed countries in the western countries such as the United States and Japan have emerged new economic forms that deserve close attention. This economic form, as the prototype of the future world economy, will dominate the world economy in the new century with the opening of the global information superhighway. Below, I will make a superficial analysis of the characteristics of this economic form. First, the new economy is a knowledge-based economy. The new economy is based on the economic form of new technology and the essence of human knowledge. In the old economy, production, distribution, and sales are material-based, with the main elements of production being capital, natural resources and labor. In the new economy, knowledge becomes the main content of production, distribution and sale, knowledge and labor with knowledge