Title:
Economic transformations : general purpose technologies and long-term economic growth
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Publication Information:
New York, NY : Oxford University Pr., 2005
ISBN:
9780199285648
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Summary
Summary
This book examines the long term economic growth that has raised the West's material living standards to levels undreamed of by counterparts in any previous time or place. The authors argue this growth has been driven by periodic technological revolutions that have transformed the West's economic, social and political landscape over time and allowed the West to become, until recently, the world's only dominant technological force. A must read for anyone interestedin economic growth.
Author Notes
Richard G. Lipsey is at Emeritus Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University. Kenneth I. Carlaw is at Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury.
Table of Contents
| Foreword: The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and this Book |
| Preface: Why Another Book on Growth? |
| Acknowledgements |
| Growth, Technological Change And General Purpose Technologies |
| 1 Technology as Revolution |
| 2 Two Views of Economic Processes |
| 3 A Structuralist Evolutionary Decomposition |
| 4 Technology and Technological Change |
| 5 DT A Survey of GPTs in Western History: Part I 10,000 BC to 1450 AD |
| 6 A Survey Of GPTs in Western History: Part II 1450 to 2010 |
| The Transition To Sustained Growth |
| 7 The Emergence of Sustained Extensive Growth in the West |
| 8 Why Not Elsewhere? |
| 9 Population Dynamics: Extensive and Intensive Growth Related |
| 10 The Emergence of Sustained Intensive Growth in the West |
| Modelling Sustained Gpt-Driven Growth |
| 11 DT GPTs and Related Concepts in the Literature |
| 12 Scale Economies in Economic Growth |
| 13 : Appreciative Theories of GPTs |
| 14 Formal Models Of GPT-Driven Sustained Growth: The Base Line Model |
| 15 DT Formal Models of GPT-Driven Sustained Growth: Extensions and Applications |
| Policy |
| 16 Technology Enhancement Policy: Theory and Evidence |
| 17 Assessing Technology Enhancement Policies |
