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Technology, Institutions, and Economic Growth / Richard R. Nelson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2005]Copyright date: 2005Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674275478
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.9/001
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I -- CHAPTER 1. The Agenda for Growth Theory: A Different Point of View -- CHAPTER 2. The Asian Miracle and Modern Growth Theory -- PART II -- CHAPTER 3. Recent Evolutionary Theorizing about Economic Change -- CHAPTER 4. On the Nature and Evolution of Human Know-how -- CHAPTER 5. Making Sense of Institutions as a Factor Shaping Economic Performance -- PART III -- CHAPTER 6. On the Uneven Evolution of Human Know-how -- CHAPTER 7. Physical and Social Technologies and Their Evolution -- PART IV -- CHAPTER 8. The Problem of Market Bias in Modern Capitalist Economies -- CHAPTER 9. The Market Economy and the Scientific Commons -- References -- Index
Summary: This volume mounts a full-blown attack on the standard neo-classical theory of economic growth, which Richard Nelson sees as hopelessly inadequate to explain the phenomenon of economic growth. He presents an alternative theory which highlights that economic growth driven by technological advance involves disequilibrium in a fundamental and continuing way. Nelson also argues that a theory of economic growth driven by technological advance must recognize a range of institutions, such as universities, public laboratories, and government agencies, in addition to business firms and markets. He further argues that growth theories that focus on an aggregate measure of growth, such as GNP per capita, are blind to what is going on beneath the aggregate, where differing rates of advance in different sectors, and the birth and death of industries are an essential part of the growth process. The broad theory of economic growth Nelson presents sees the process as involving the co-evolution of technologies, institutions, and industry structure.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I -- CHAPTER 1. The Agenda for Growth Theory: A Different Point of View -- CHAPTER 2. The Asian Miracle and Modern Growth Theory -- PART II -- CHAPTER 3. Recent Evolutionary Theorizing about Economic Change -- CHAPTER 4. On the Nature and Evolution of Human Know-how -- CHAPTER 5. Making Sense of Institutions as a Factor Shaping Economic Performance -- PART III -- CHAPTER 6. On the Uneven Evolution of Human Know-how -- CHAPTER 7. Physical and Social Technologies and Their Evolution -- PART IV -- CHAPTER 8. The Problem of Market Bias in Modern Capitalist Economies -- CHAPTER 9. The Market Economy and the Scientific Commons -- References -- Index

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This volume mounts a full-blown attack on the standard neo-classical theory of economic growth, which Richard Nelson sees as hopelessly inadequate to explain the phenomenon of economic growth. He presents an alternative theory which highlights that economic growth driven by technological advance involves disequilibrium in a fundamental and continuing way. Nelson also argues that a theory of economic growth driven by technological advance must recognize a range of institutions, such as universities, public laboratories, and government agencies, in addition to business firms and markets. He further argues that growth theories that focus on an aggregate measure of growth, such as GNP per capita, are blind to what is going on beneath the aggregate, where differing rates of advance in different sectors, and the birth and death of industries are an essential part of the growth process. The broad theory of economic growth Nelson presents sees the process as involving the co-evolution of technologies, institutions, and industry structure.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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