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Technology, institutions, and economic growth

This volume mounts a full-blown attack on the standard neo-classical theory of economic growth, which Richard Nelson sees as hopelessly inadequate to explain the phenomenon of economic growth. He presents an alternative theory which highlights that economic growth driven by technological advance inv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nelson, Richard R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The agenda for growth theory : a different point of view
  • 2. The Asian miracle and modern growth theory
  • 3. Recent evolutionary theorizing about economic change
  • 4. On the nature and evolution of human know-how
  • 5. Making sense of institutions as a factor shaping economic performance
  • 6. On the uneven evolution of human know-how
  • 7. Physical and social technologies and their evolution
  • 8. The problem of market bias in modern capitalist economics
  • 9. The market economy and the scientific commons