Inside the Black Box Technology and Economics

Name: Inside the Black Box Technology and Economics
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ISBN: 9780521273671

ISBN-10: 0521273676

ISBN-13: 9780521273671

Edition: 1982

Authors: Nathan Rosenberg

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Economists have long treated technological phenomena as events transpiring inside a black box and, on the whole, have adhered rather strictly to a self-imposed ordinance not to inquire too seriously into what transpires inside that box. The purpose of Professor Rosenberg's work is to break open and examine the contents of the black box. In so doing, a number of important economic problems be powerfully illuminated. The author clearly shows how specific features of individual technologies have shaped a number of variables of great concern to economists: the rate of productivity improvement, the nature of learning processes underlying technological change itself, the speed of technology…

Book details

List price: $63.99
Copyright year: 1982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/28/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.968



Preface



View of Technical Progress



The historiography of technical progress



Marx as a student of technology



Some Significant Characteristics of Technologies



Technological interdependence in the American economy



The effects of energy supply characteristics on technology and economic growth



On technological expectations



Learning by using



How exogenous is science?



Market Determinants of Technological Innovation



Technical change in the commercial aircraft industry, 1925-1975




The economic implications of the VSLI revolution




The influence of market demand upon innovation: a critical review of some recent empirical studies




Technology Transfer and Leadership: The International Context



The international transfer of technology: implications for the industrialised countries



US technological leadership and foreign competition: de te fabula narratur?


Index