Learning by doing : the real connection between innovation, wages, and wealth /

Today's great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere - in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor's office - but not in our paychecks. In the past, technological advancements dramatically increased wages, but for three decades now, the median wage has remaine...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bessen, James, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Temas:
Employees > Effect of technological innovations on.
Wages > Effect of technological innovations on.
Skilled labor.
Technological innovations > Economic aspects.
Economic development.
Personnel > Effets des innovations sur.
Salaires > Effets des innovations sur.
Innovations > Aspect économique.
Développement économique.
economic development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Economic development
Employees > Effect of technological innovations on
Skilled labor
Technological innovations > Economic aspects
Wages > Effect of technological innovations on
Ekonomisk tillväxt.
Arbetskraft.
Löner.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • More than inventions
  • The skill of the unskilled
  • Revolutions in slow motion
  • Standard knowledge
  • When does technology raise wages?
  • How the weavers got good wages
  • The transition today : scarce skills, not scarce jobs
  • Does technology require more college diplomas?
  • Whose knowledge economy?
  • Procuring new knowledge
  • The forgotten history of knowledge sharing
  • Patents and early-stage knowledge
  • The political economy of technical knowledge
  • The skills of the many and the prosperity of nations.

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