This book presents a unique account of how technological change is generated and the processes by which improved technologies are introduced into economic activity. The central theme of the book is the idea that technological changes are often "path dependent": their form and direction tend to be influenced strongly by the particular sequence of earlier events out of which a new technology has emerged. Individual chapters explore the particular features of new technologies in different historical and sectoral contexts.
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"Historians of technology will learn something from this book and will applaud Rosenberg's challenges to economic orthodoxies in several areas." Technology and Culture, JoAnne Yates, M.I.T.
"The toughest thing about trying to cross disciplinary chasms is finding trustworthy bridges: this volume offers historians of science a strong and sturdy bridge into the fertile and promising landscape of science and its economic relations and consequences. And Nathan Rosenberg is a prince of a guide." ISIS
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"The toughest thing about trying to cross disciplinary chasms is finding trustworthy bridges: this volume offers historians of science a strong and sturdy bridge into the fertile and promising landscape of science and its economic relations and consequences. And Nathan Rosenberg is a prince of a guide." ISIS
"...Rosenberg is a master of the well-crafted, thought-provoking essay...this latest collection...will undoubtedly be widely read. If you read nothing else on technological innovation, you will not go wrong by reading Rosenberg...easily accessible to the general reader." Nature
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Presenting a unique account of how technological change is generated and improved technologies introduced, this text implies that such changes are often "path dependent" because they tend to be so strongly influenced by the sequence of events from which a new technology has emerged.
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It is no longer necessary for an economist to apologize when introducing the subject of technological change. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
substitute innovations, forest products industry, innovation clusters, improved energy efficiency, technological realm Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Nathan Rosenberg, Bell Labs, Second World War, Cambridge University Press, Adam Smith, Bell System, Joseph Schumpeter, United Kingdom, Systems Engineering, Charles Babbage, Nobel Prize, American Economic Review, Joy Dunkerley, National Academy Press, Department of Commerce, Soviet Union, Wealth of Nations, Wood Use, Bureau of the Census, Great Britain, National Science Foundation, Office of Technology Assessment, Sam Schurr New!
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- Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter on 12 pages
- Perspectives on Technology by Nathan Rosenberg on 7 pages
- The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics) by Adam Smith on 5 pages
- The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Blaisdell on 4 pages
- On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures (Dodo Press) by Charles Babbage on 4 pages
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- Knock on Wood: Nature as Commodity in Douglas-Fir Country by W. Scott Prudham on page 195, page 207, and Back Matter
- Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture by Timothy D Taylor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Technological Innovation: Oversights and Foresights by Raghu Garud on page 9, and page 354
- William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics) by Harro Maas in Back Matter
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