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Information: a Factor of Economic Progress
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 July 2024
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Cyberneticians define information and the quantity of information in mathematical terms, apprehending them independently from their meaning. When they put aside their conceptualizations and symbolizations, foreign to the semantic content of messages, we see them hesitant about their domain of prospection.
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- Copyright © 1958 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)
References
1. Louis Couffignal, "La Cybernétique," Encyclopédie française (Paris, 1957).
2. François Perroux, "Les Mesures statistiques des progrès économiques et l'idée d'écono mie progressive," Cahiers de l'Institut de Science Économique Appliquée, Series I: Le Progrès économique, No. I, December, 1956.
3. For more details cf. François Perroux, "La Théorie générale du progrès économique, I : Les Composants. I. La Création," Cahiers de l'Institut de Science Économique Appliqule, 1957.
4. Or, one might say, "in the mechanisms of the structuring of total product."
5. Empirically defined. One industry sells a product different from the product of another industry in technical and economic characteristics. The reader is here referred to the delimita tion of industries as presented in useful statistics, not to the theoretical concept of an industry defined by a homogeneous product or by a degree of differentiation of the product analyti cally determined.
6. E. Minkowski, "Expansion et épanouissement, Uit," Tijdschrift voor Philosophie, Vol. IV (December, 1956).