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Explaining Technology: Elements in Evolutionary Economics

Autor Roger Koppl, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Abigail Devereaux, Brian D. Fath, James Herriott, Wim Hordijk, Stuart Kauffman, Robert E. Ulanowicz, Sergi Valverde
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 aug 2023
A long tradition explains technological change as recombination. Within this tradition, this Element develops an innovative combinatorial model of technological change and tests it with 2,000 years of global GDP data and with data from US patents filed between 1835 and 2010. The model explains 1) the pace of technological change for a least the past two millennia, 2) patent citations and 3) the increasing complexity of tools over time. It shows that combining and modifying pre-existing goods to produce new goods generates the observed historical pattern of technological change. A long period of stasis was followed by sudden super-exponential growth in the number of goods. In this model, the sudden explosion of about 250 years ago is a combinatorial explosion that was a long time in coming, but inevitable once the process began at least two thousand years ago. This Element models the Industrial Revolution as a combinatorial explosion.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009386258
ISBN-10: 1009386255
Pagini: 75
Dimensiuni: 228 x 151 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Elements in Evolutionary Economics

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Introduction; 2. Competing explanations of technology; 3. The theory of combinatorial evolution; 4. Our model; 5. Our Tri-data result; 6. Niche theory; 7. Homo tinkerus; 8. Entrepreneurship and innovation; 9. CODA; Appendix; References.

Descriere

This Element describes a combinatory model of technological change that explains both world economic history and the Anthropocene crisis.