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Technological retrogression : a Schumpeterian interpretation of modernization in reverse /
The aim of this book is to broaden our understanding of technological change by adopting the concept of technological retrogression. With reference to concrete cases of technological retrogression a new conceptual framework is developed. The book's exposition aims at contrasting retrogressive e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Anthem Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Anthem other canon economics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter Int-null
- Introduction: The concept of technological retrogression
- Point of departure
- Conceptual clarifications
- Diffusion of technology
- The chapters
- Chapter 1. Challenging linearity and irreversibility
- Grand narratives of progress
- Constructing a testable theory of reversal of modernization
- Necessity, choice and profit opportunity
- Empirical evidence of technological retrogression
- Challenging Schumpeterian thought
- Chapter 2. perspectives on technological heterogeneity
- Understanding time-space edges
- One backward and one progressive sector
- The destruction of antiquated modes of production
- The transition to capitalism in the colonial context
- Escaping dualism
- Peripheral capitalism
- Reproduction of labour in the pre-capitalist sector
- Technological backwardness and marginalization
- Explaining technological retrogression
- Diminishing returns
- Gaining more by producing less
- Applying the three approaches to heterogeneity
- A preoccupation with dualism
- Expanded relations
- An articulationist's approach
- An appraisal of the approaches
- Chapter 3. Production systems and work histories
- The production system approach
- The concept of production system
- Separate economic spheres
- Interconnected relations
- The direction of change
- An ideal type approach
- General features of the production systems
- Resource exploitation
- Technology
- Capital
- Market expansion
- Labour recruitment
- Share systems
- Security nets
- The classification problem
- Reconstruction of technological pasts using work histories
- Career paths
- Forms of technology over time
- Limitations of the work history method
- Chapter 4. empirical evidence of technological retrogression: the sri lankan case
- Modernization efforts
- New technology
- The fisheries of Hambantota
- Forms of technology
- Forms of technology and age
- Reconstruction of technological change
- Changes within artisanal fisheries
- The transition
- Combination
- Summing up the reconstruction
- Standard of living
- Ownership and standard of living
- Forms of technology and standard of living
- Technological pasts and standard of living
- Summary
- Chapter 5. Empirical evidence of technological retrogression: the malaysian case
- Poverty and inequality
- The fisheries
- Forms of technology in Kuala Kedah
- The village
- Discovering hidden variation
- Forms of technology
- Technological change in Kuala Kedah
- Changes within artisanal fisheries
- The transition