高能社会的科学运行:斯科特技术治理思想述评

The Scientific Operation of High Energy Society:On the Technocracy Theory of Howard Scott

斯科特是激进技治主义者的典型代表。他从能量角度来理解社会,认为人类从低能社会进入高能社会应该用与之匹配的技术治理制度取代传统的价格制度,以能量券为工具在全社会范围按需分配。他描绘技术治理社会的轮廓,并深入分析科技发展与制度变迁的密切关系,对于技术治理研究启示很多,局限性也很明显。

Howard Scott is one of the representatives of radical technocrats. Understanding the society from the angle of energy,he argues that human society entered into a high energy society from a low energy society,and so we need the new technocracy system that is adaptive to the high energy society to replace the traditional price system.He also describes the outline of the technocracy society. Since he emphasizes and deeply analyses the close relationship between the development of science and technology and the institutional change,which has many inspirations for the technocracy,but its limitations are also obvious.