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As time goes by : from the industrial revolutions to the information revolution /

Putting the IT revolution in the perspective of previous waves of technical change, e.g. electrification, the authors argue for a theory of reasoned economic history which assigns a central place to these successive technological revolutions.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Freeman, Christopher, 1921-2010
Autor Corporativo: Oxford University Press
Otros Autores: Louçã, Francisco
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The fundamental things apply
  • Restless Clio : a story of the economic historians' assessment of history in economics
  • Schumpeter's plea for reasoned history
  • Nikolai Kondratiev : a new approach to history and statistics
  • The strange attraction of tides and waves
  • A theory of reasoned history
  • Technical change and long waves in economic development
  • The British industrial revolution : the age of cotton, iron and water power
  • The second Kondratiev wave : the age of iron railways, steam power and mechanization
  • The third Kondratiev wave : the age of steel, heavy engineering and electrification
  • The fourth Kondratiev wave : the great depression and the age of oil, automobiles, motorization and mass production
  • The emergence of a new techno-economic paradigm : the age of information and communication technology (ICT)
  • Recurrent phenomena of the long waves of capitalist development.