1, when an assembler sets out to master the technology of producing advanced components, the resulting demands on its resources may compromise its ability to assemble these components successfully into end products.

怎么译呀,总觉理解有点别扭!!

2,Conventional financial analysis pays limited attention to issues of market structure and dynamics, relative costs of information, and problems of income distribution.

relative costs of information是什么意思??

3,The existing system expresses definite socially based investment preferences that result from the previous allocation of income and that influence the allocation of resources for the present and future.

definite在这里怎么理解??

我的理解：

1.

当一个装配工(装配机器，机器人)开始掌握生产高级部件的技术，由此导致的对它(本身)资源的需求可能会危机它成功地把这些部件组装成产品的能力。

Just like the case that a computer may be bogged down when you have it run too many programs since the computer's resources may be used up. In the above sentence, the assemler was NOT in charge of producing advanced components. Now it has this more demanding new task, it may not have enough resources to handle it.

2.

相关的信息成本

Nowadays, you need to pay for information.

3.

明确的投资偏好/选择

谢谢指点，占用了你不少宝贵时间。：）