Technology, Institutions, and Economic Growth / / Richard R. Nelson.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2005]
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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I
  • CHAPTER 1. The Agenda for Growth Theory: A Different Point of View
  • CHAPTER 2. The Asian Miracle and Modern Growth Theory
  • PART II
  • CHAPTER 3. Recent Evolutionary Theorizing about Economic Change
  • CHAPTER 4. On the Nature and Evolution of Human Know-how
  • CHAPTER 5. Making Sense of Institutions as a Factor Shaping Economic Performance
  • PART III
  • CHAPTER 6. On the Uneven Evolution of Human Know-how
  • CHAPTER 7. Physical and Social Technologies and Their Evolution
  • PART IV
  • CHAPTER 8. The Problem of Market Bias in Modern Capitalist Economies
  • CHAPTER 9. The Market Economy and the Scientific Commons
  • References
  • Index