马费成、王槐的力作《情报经济学》(武汉大学出版社,1991年版)是国内第一本以情报经济为主题的专著。近十几年来,不时有各式各样的“学”接二连三地冒出和登台,人们对一门新学科的宣布问世,不免要带着理性的怀疑问道:这真是一株可称之为科学的“小树”吗? 对这本新著而言,我以为答案是肯定的。因为,它的出世,有着厚实的实践根基和深刻的知识背景。 80年代中期以来,我国科技情报体制改革的浪潮带来了一连串的新事物:情报有偿服 Ma Feicheng, Wang Huai’s masterpiece “Information Economics” (Wuhan University Press, 1991 edition) is the first monograph on the theme of intelligence and economy. In the recent decade or so, there have been a series of “learnings” popping up and coming out one after another from time to time. When people announce the announcement of a new discipline, they should be tempted to ask with rational suspicion: This is really what one can call Scientific “tree”? For this new book, I think the answer is yes. Because of its birth, it has a solid foundation of practice and a profound knowledge background. Since the mid-1980s, the tide of the reform in China’s S & T intelligence system has brought a series of new things: the information service