YENİ EKONOMİ MAKROEKONOMİSİ: SON “AZALAN BEKLEYİŞLER ALTIN ÇAĞI

Abstract

Birle ik Devletlerin, 1990’ların sonlarındaki ola anüstü ekonomik ba arısı pek çok ekonomisti ‘Yeni Ekonomi’ ile ilgili mülahazalara sevketmi tir. ‘Yeni Ekonomi’ anlayı ına göre, teknolojik geli meler, yüksek oranlı sürdürülebilir üretkenlik artı ına, bu da çok dü ük i sizlik ve daha az enflasyonun e lik etti i daha hızlı bir ekonomik büyümeye neden olmu tur. Fakat, 2000’den bu yana devam eden geli meler-borsada uzun ve derin ba a a ı ini ler, i letmelerin yatırımlarındaki azalı lar ve bunları takip eden durgunluk- Yeni Ekonomi görü ünün hala geçerli olup olmadı ı hakkında birçok soruyu gündeme getirmi tir. Bu makale, pekço u internetin yükseli i ile sıkı sıkıya ba lantılı Yeni Ekonominin temel konularını detaylı bir biçimde gözden geçirmektedir

Keywords

• Yeni Ekonomi, Üretkenlik Büyümesi, Enformasyon ve Komünikasyon Teknolojisi (EKT)

THE NEW ECONOMY MACROECONOMICS: THE LATE “GOLDEN AGE OF DIMINISHED EXPECTATION

Abstract

The remarkable economic success of the US in the late 1990s led many economists to talk about a 'New Economy', according to which technological advances had brought on a higher sustained level of productivity growth that allowed faster economic growth with less inflation, and very low unemployment. But given the events since 2000-the long, steep stock market downturn, the falloff in business investment and the subsequent recession-many questions arose based on whether anything in the New Economy view is valid. This essay provides a detailed overview of the main issues, many of them closely linked to the rise of the Internet.

Keywords

• New Economy, Productivity Growth, Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

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