权威性的评论家们和政治家们常常宣告我们生活在知识经济中,这种经济的成功日益地取决于脑力而不是体力。虽然迈克·泰森也许不同意,他们可能甚至是正确的。然而对于所有这样的谈论,关于知识经济实际地懂得甚少。统计对能够落在你的脚旁的东西的衡量比之对创意的价值的衡量远为更佳。幸运地,经济合作与发展组织(OECD)一项新的研究在填补这个美景和揭穿某些神话作了个开端。在 OECD 的知识经济表中,居首位的是德国而不是美国。1996年,以知识为基础的行业占到德国工商业产出的58.6%,而居于第2位的美国则是55.3%。居第3位的是日本,英国 Authoritative critics and politicians often proclaim that we live in a knowledge-based economy, whose economic success increasingly depends on mental rather than physical strength. Although Mike Tyson may not agree, they may even be right. However, for all such discussions, little is known about the knowledge economy. Statistics measure things that fall near your feet much better than the value of ideas. Fortunately, a new study by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) made the beginning of filling that beauty and debunking certain myths. In the OECD’s table of knowledge economy, Germany ranks first instead of the United States. In 1996, knowledge-based industries accounted for 58.6% of German industrial and commercial output, compared with 55.3% for the United States in the second place. Ranked third in Japan, Britain