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Rosenberg, Nathan

 
9780521290111: Perspectives on Technology
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ISBN 10: 0521290112 ISBN 13: 9780521290111
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Sinossi

Perspectives on Technology consists of papers written by Nathan Rosenberg over a ten-year period, from the early 1960s to the early 1970s.

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Descrizione del libro

Perspectives on Technology consists of papers written by Nathan Rosenberg over a ten-year period, from the early 1960s to the early 1970s. Their origin was in Professor Rosenberg's interest in long-term economic growth processes and, especially, in the behaviour of industrializing societies.

Contenuti

Part I. Some origins of American technology: 1. Technological change in the machine tool industry, 1840–1910; 2. America's rise to woodworking leadership; 3. Anglo-American wage differences in the 1820's; Part II. The generation of new technologies: 4. Problems in the economist's conceptualization of technological innovation; 5. Neglected dimensions in the analysis of economic change; 6. The direction of technological change: inducement mechanisms and focusing devices; 7. Karl Marx on the economic role of science; Part III. Diffusion and adaptation of technology: 8. Capital goods, technology, and economic growth; 9. Economic development and the transfer of technology: some historical perspectives; 10. Selection and adaptation in the transfer of technology: steam and iron in America 1800–1870; 11. Factors affecting the diffusion of technology; Part IV. Natural resources, environment and the growth of knowledge: 12. Technology and the environment: an economic exploration; 13. Technological innovation and natural resources: the niggardliness of nature reconsidered; 14. Innovative responses to materials shortages; 15. Science, invention, and economic growth.

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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0521290112
ISBN 13 
9780521290111
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
364
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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