Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long-Term Economic Growth

by Richard G. Lipsey, Clifford T. Bekar, Kenneth I. Carlaw

Book Overview

This book examines the long term economic growth that has raised the West's material living standards to levels undreamed of by counterparts in any previous time or place. The authors argue that this growth has been driven by technological revolutions that have periodically transformed the West's economic, social and political landscape over the last 10,000 years and allowed the West to become, until recently, the world's only dominant technological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199285640
• ISBN13: 9780199285648
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"