The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
Autor Joel Mokyren Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 iun 1992
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780195074772
ISBN-10: 0195074777
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: numerous halftone and line drawings
Dimensiuni: 202 x 135 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0195074777
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: numerous halftone and line drawings
Dimensiuni: 202 x 135 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Part I: Introduction; Part II: Classical antiquity; The Middle Ages; The Renaissance and beyond; The years of miracles: the Industrial Revolution; The later Nineteenth century; Part III: Understanding technological progress; Classical and medieval technology; China and Europe; The industrial revolution: Britain and Europe; Part IV: Evolution and the dynamics of technological change
Recenzii
This is an important book about the determinants of technological creativity and why the West has been successful in promoting and adopting new technology for economic progress. The Lever of Riches is a valuable book that every economist should read.
it brings together a wealth of information on the development of technology and the means of analysing it ... it is so splendidly provocative
This is an ambitious and intriguing book ... What marks it out is the sophisticated handling of the theory of techonological change, within an evolutionary theoretical paradigm ... this is an important, erudite and engrossing book, and is lifely to be one of the key works in the emerging evolutionary analysis of technological change. It is essential reading for those interested in both economic history and the development of evolutionary economics.
it brings together a wealth of information on the development of technology and the means of analysing it ... it is so splendidly provocative
This is an ambitious and intriguing book ... What marks it out is the sophisticated handling of the theory of techonological change, within an evolutionary theoretical paradigm ... this is an important, erudite and engrossing book, and is lifely to be one of the key works in the emerging evolutionary analysis of technological change. It is essential reading for those interested in both economic history and the development of evolutionary economics.