NEW THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF IDENTIFYING THE TECHNOLOGY LEVEL

The article is devoted to the development of the utility (use-value) concept of economic theory through the use of its main provisions in solving the problem of classification (identification) of the level of technology. It is shown that the existing methods of this classification are based on quantitative cost criteria, costly in their political and economic essence. This circumstance does not allow us to escape from the grip of the currently dominant costly paradigm of socio-economic development, exacerbating the contradictions generated by scientific, technical and technological progress. As part of solving the current problem of shifting emphasis from quantitative parameters to qualitative indicators of economic growth, new theoretical approaches to identifying the level of technology have been proposed. At the same time, attention was focused not on the costs of research and development, but on the parameters of the products produced and the political economic aspects associated with the replacement of human labor by technology.

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