制度知识对经济增长的作用及人力资本第二特征

The Effect of Institutional Knowledge on Economic Growth and the Second Feature of Human Capital

知识可分为关于自然的技术知识和关于人类自身的制度知识,主流经济增长理论强调技术知识对经济增长的作用,却忽视了制度知识对经济增长的作用;制度知识分布状况决定了技术知识作用于经济增长的可能性及充分性,应将全部知识纳入经济增长分析框架。知识在经济增长中的运用实际上就是人力资本优化的结果,人力资本不仅体现为技术知识,而且体现为制度知识,即人力资本的第二特征。着力提升人力资本,特别是提高制度知识水平是经济发展的根本途径。

Knowledge can be divided into technical knowledge on nature and institutional knowledge on human itself. The mainstream economic growth theory highlights the effect of technical knowledge on economic growth but overlooks the effect of institutional knowledge on economic growth. The institutional knowledge distribution status determines the effect of the possibility and sufficiency on economic growth. Therefore, all knowledge should be included in economic growth analysis framework. The application of knowledge to economic growth is really the result of human capital optimization because human capital not only embodies technical knowledge but also reflects institutional knowledge, i.e., the second feature of human capital. The basic path for the economic development is making efforts to raise human capital, especially to promote institutional knowledge level.