In the long run, as the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has written, productivity is almost everything. But what drives productivity? The answer is know-how. It is because humanity has discovered, developed, deployed, and disseminated useful knowledge that an ever-rising proportion of the world’s population is at last escaping the “poor, nasty, brutish and short” lives of our ancestors, pithily described by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes in the 17th century.
正如諾貝兒獎得主保羅•克魯格曼(Paul Krugman)所寫，從長遠來看，生產率幾乎就是一切。但推動生產率成長的是什麼呢？是知識。正是因爲人類發現、開發、利用和傳播有用的知識，才讓全球越來越多的人羣最終擺脫了我們祖先「貧困、汙穢、野蠻又短暫的」生活——哲學家湯瑪斯•霍布斯(Thomas Hobbes)在17世紀的精闢描述。
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