The Theory of Technological Change and Economic Growth.
Title:
The Theory of Technological Change and Economic Growth.
Author:
Gomulka, Dr Stanislaw.
ISBN:
9780203013052
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part one. Microeconomics of invention, innovation, and diffusion -- Chapter one. Preliminary concepts and relations -- Chapter two. Inventive activity -- Chapter three. Major time trends and cross-sectional tendencies -- Chapter four. Market structure, rivalry, and innovation -- Chapter five. Behavioural and evolutionary versus neoclassical theory of technical choice and innovation -- Chapter six. Innovation diffusion -- Chapter seven. The behaviour of enterprises and innovation characteristics in centrally managed economies -- Part two. Macroeconomics of innovation, technology transfer, and growth -- Chapter eight. Innovation biases, factor substitution, and the measurement of technological change -- Chapter nine. Variation of innovation rates among countries and over time -- Chapter ten. 'Technological revolution' as an innovation superwave in the world technological frontier area -- Chapter eleven. Evidence and microeconomics of the international technology transfer -- Chapter twelve. Macrotheories and evidence of international technology transfer -- Chapter thirteen. Innovation rate and change of economic systems -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
In this wide ranging exposition of the various economic theories of technological change, Stanislaw Gomulka relates them to rates of growth experienced by different economies in both the short and the long term. Analysis of countries as diverse as Japan, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom demonstrates that there is an interdependence between technological change and the institutional and cultural characteristics of different countries, which can have a profound effect on their rates of growth. All of the major, relevant models are discussed, including those of Kuznets and Phelps, but throughout the emphasis is on the creation of a unified theoretical framework to help explain the impact of technological progress on both a micro and a macro scale.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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