Technological analysis of industries (Part 1)

Engineering

planning

Economy

technological industries

National planning has to model the structure of the economy, to indicate the lines on which it must proceed and to manage all current affairs of the national economy with respect to the implementation of the plan. If so, planning cannot do without including problems of technique and technology in its field of activity. We all, perhaps, know the economic problem concerning the choice of technology which occurs in planning very often. With a view to this it might be useless to raise the pro- blem quoted in the title of this chapter. Usually there is general agreement on this interdependence. But if we study the respective literature one must get the impression that economists or planners mostly are asked to take into consideration technical and technological problems and accomplishments. We should, however, amplify this point or better put it forward in a more precise way.