Explaining Technology

by Abigail Devereaux, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Roger Koppl

A long tradition explains technological change as recombination. Within this tradition, this Element develops an innovative combinatorial model of technological change and tests it with 2,000 years of global GDP data and with data from US patents filed between 1835 and 2010. The model explains 1) the pace of technological change for a least the past two millennia, 2) patent citations and 3) the increasing complexity of tools over time. It shows that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009386255
• ISBN13: 9781009386258
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"