General Purpose Technologies and Economic Growth

Name: General Purpose Technologies and Economic Growth
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ISBN: 9780262082631

ISBN-10: 0262082632

ISBN-13: 9780262082631

Edition: 1998

Authors: Elhanan Helpman

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The study of general purpose technologies (GPTs) is relatively new. The essays in this collection aim to both further our understanding of GPT-driven economic growth and lay the foundation for further developments of the available frameworks.

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/27/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 316
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Elhanan Helpman is Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University and the author of many research articles and books.




Introduction




What Requirees Explanation?




A Time to Sow and a Time to Reap: Growth Based on Gene Purpose Technologies




Diffusion of General Purpose Technologies




Philippe Aghion




The Internet as a GPT: Factor Market Implications




Chemical Engineering as a General Purpose Technologies




The Consequences of Changes in GPTs




Measurement, Obsolescence, and General Purpose Technologies




The Division of Inventive Labor and the Extent of the Market




Wages, Skills, and Technology in the United States and Canada



Index