Technical Choice Innovation and Economic Growth: Essays on American and British Experience in the Nineteenth Century - Hardcover

David, Paul A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521205182 ISBN 13: 9780521205184

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1975

Synopsis

This book deals with technological innovations of the nineteenth century. In a number of self-contained but related essays it treats the salient aspects of technological change that have interested modern economists and economic historians, as well as historians of technology: economically induced invention and innovation, learning by doing in industrial operations, the diffusion of new production techniques, and the bearing of these upon the growth of a society's productivity. The studies are detailed, in the sense that they focus not upon the economy as a whole, but rather upon the experiences of specific industries, branches of manufacturing, and individual productive units such as the mid-Victorial grain farm and the New England cotton textile mill. They attempt to integrate traditional historical methods and materials with a more explicit reliance on economic theorizing and applications of statistical analysis to test hypotheses.

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Book Description:

This book deals with technological innovations of the nineteenth century. In a number of self-contained but related essays it treats the salient aspects of technological change that have interested modern economists and economic historians, as well as historians of technology: economically induced invention and innovation, learning by doing in industrial operations, the diffusion of new production techniques, and the bearing of these upon the growth of a society's productivity.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0521205182
• ISBN 13: 9780521205184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344