Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What requires explanation? / Richard G. Lipsey, Cliff Bekar, and Kenneth Carlaw
  • A time to sow and a time to reap: growth based on general purpose technologies / Elhanan Helpman and Manuel Trajtenberg
  • Diffusion of general purpose technologies / Elhanan Helpman and Manuel Trajtenberg
  • On the macroeconomic effects of major technological change / Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt
  • The Internet as a GPT: factor market implications / Richard G. Harris
  • Chemical engineering as a general purpose technology / Nathan Rosenberg
  • The consequences of changes in GPTs / Richard G. Lipsey, Cliff Bekar, and Kenneth Carlaw
  • Measurement, obsolescence, and general purpose technologies / Peter Howitt
  • The division of inventive labor and the extent of the market / Timothy Bresnahan and Alfonso Gambardella
  • Wages, skills, and technology in the United States and Canada / Kevin M. Murphy, W. Craig Riddell, and Paul M. Romer.