Technical Choice Innovation and Economic Growth

by Paul A. David

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521098750
• ISBN13: 9780521098755
• Release Date: February 1975
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"