Technological Retrogression

Author : Sylvi B. Endresen
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781785277153

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Technological Retrogression by Sylvi B. Endresen Pdf

The aim of this book is to broaden our understanding of technological change by adopting the concept of technological retrogression. With reference to concrete cases of technological retrogression a new conceptual framework is developed. The book’s exposition aims at contrasting retrogressive economic dynamics of technological change to progressive dynamics as developed by Schumpeter. At one extreme in the dimension of technological change, capital-strong production units innovate their way out of the recession through technological progress, adopting more advanced production equipment that improves productivity. Following Schumpeterian progressive dynamics, virtuous spirals of growth result. At the other end we find the producers that resort to technological retrogression, which secures survival, but which result in low labour productivity, diminishing the possibility of capital accumulation and thus modernization that could form an escape from poverty. Vicious spirals of decline result, which is the book’s main object of analysis. The theory is, thus, a contribution to understanding the anatomy of recessions.

Author : Sylvi B. Endresen
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781785277146

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Technological Retrogression by Sylvi B. Endresen Pdf

The aim of this book is to broaden our understanding of technological change by adopting the concept of technological retrogression. With reference to concrete cases of technological retrogression a new conceptual framework is developed. The book’s exposition aims at contrasting retrogressive economic dynamics of technological change to progressive dynamics as developed by Schumpeter. At one extreme in the dimension of technological change, capital-strong production units innovate their way out of the recession through technological progress, adopting more advanced production equipment that improves productivity. Following Schumpeterian progressive dynamics, virtuous spirals of growth result. At the other end we find the producers that resort to technological retrogression, which secures survival, but which result in low labour productivity, diminishing the possibility of capital accumulation and thus modernization that could form an escape from poverty. Vicious spirals of decline result, which is the book’s main object of analysis. The theory is, thus, a contribution to understanding the anatomy of recessions.

Author : Erik S. Reinert,Jayati Ghosh,Rainer Kattel
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781782544685

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Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development by Erik S. Reinert,Jayati Ghosh,Rainer Kattel Pdf

The Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development explores the theories and approaches which, over a prolonged period of time, have existed as viable alternatives to today’s mainstream and neo-classical tenets. With a total of 40 specially commissioned chapters, written by the foremost authorities in their respective fields, this volume represents a landmark in the field of economic development. It elucidates the richness of the alternative and sometimes misunderstood ideas which, in different historical contexts, have proved to be vital to the improvement of the human condition. The subject matter is approached from several complementary perspectives. From a historical angle, the Handbook charts the mercantilist and cameralist theories that emerged from the Renaissance and developed further during the Enlightenment. From a geographical angle, it includes chapters on African, Chinese, Indian, and Muslim approaches to economic development. Different schools are also explored and discussed including nineteenth century US development theory, Marxist, Schumpeterian, Latin American structuralism, regulation theory and world systems theories of development. In addition, the Handbook has chapters on important events and institutions including The League of Nations, The Havana Charter, and UNCTAD, as well as on particularly influential development economists. Contemporary topics such as the role of finance, feminism, the agrarian issue, and ecology and the environment are also covered in depth. This comprehensive Handbook offers an unrivalled review and analysis of alternative and heterodox theories of economic development. It should be read by all serious scholars, teachers and students of development studies, and indeed anyone interested in alternatives to development orthodoxy.

Author : Erik S. Reinert,Ingrid H. Kvangraven
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788976541

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A Modern Guide to Uneven Economic Development by Erik S. Reinert,Ingrid H. Kvangraven Pdf

In contrast to neo-classical mainstream approaches to economics, this innovative Modern Guide addresses the complex reality of economic development as an inherently uneven process, exploring the ways of theorizing and empirically exploring the mechanisms with which the unevenness manifests itself. It covers a wide array of issues influencing wealth and poverty, technological innovation, ecology and sustainability, financialization, population, gender, and geography, considering the dynamics of cumulative causations created by the interplay between these factors.

Author : N. G. Pendse,L. M. S. Baghel
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Industrial productivity
ISBN : 8176258229

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Technological Change and Productivity Growth in Manufacturing Sector of India by N. G. Pendse,L. M. S. Baghel Pdf

Author : Erik Reinert
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781839982996

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The Other Canon of Economics, Volume 1 by Erik Reinert Pdf

Other Canon Economics: Essays in the Theory and History of Uneven Economic Development brings together key essays on development economics from one of the most prolific and important development economists and historians of economic policy today. Erik S. Reinert argues through essays ranging from 1994 to 2020 that neo-classical economics damages developing countries, mostly via adherence to the theory of comparative advantage. Based on a long intellectual tradition, started by the Italian economists Giovanni Botero (1589) and Antonio Serra (1613), Reinert shows that the country which trades increasing returns goods – e.g. high-end manufacture – has advantages over the country which trades diminishing returns goods – e.g. commodities. This has important implications for today’s development strategies that, Reinert argues, should be seen as industrial strategies.

Author : Stan Haski
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780595367177

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The Arrogance of Distance by Stan Haski Pdf

The Arrogance of Distance outlines major stages of humanity's exertions to advance from a simple tribe to the modern state based on the rule of law and individual freedom. It traces the main stages of the rise of the West from tribalism through ancient Israel, Greek city-states, Rome, Christianity, European feudalism, the Renaissance, the Reformation and Counter-reformation, the Enlightenment, capitalism to modernity. The book resonates those features of the West that are considered decisive in the West's success in the competition among civilizations. It recalls the values, customs, laws and institutions that have contributed to the emergence of the long economic, scientific and, in many cases, cultural distance between the West and the Rest. However, that very distance made the West arrogant as it has, more recently, been eroding the very principle of balance among human values and institutions. "Nothing too much" warned the ancient Greeks. It adumbrates the main symptoms and mechanisms of its XX century decadence reflected, among other things, in the rise of totalitarian states in the I half of the XX century and the establishment of counter-cultures, extreme individualism, multiculturalism and affirmative actions of unlimited duration in the II half of the last century. Finally, it outlines the possible measures that could check the progress of moral hazard, recover West's self-confidence and help restore the culture of freedom, individual responsibility and economic prosperity as well as to better equip the West in its fight against the scourge of terrorism.

Author : Herbert Blumer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351328746

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Industrialization as an Agent of Social Change by Herbert Blumer Pdf

Herbert Blumer wrote continuously and voluminously, and consequently left a vast array of unpublished work at the time of his death in 1987. This posthumously published volume testifies further to his perceptive analysis of large-scale social organizations and elegant application of symbolic interactionist principles. Blumer's focus on the processual nature of social life and on the significance of the communicative interpretation of social contexts is manifest in his theory of industrialization and social change. His theory entails three major points: industrialization must be seen in processual terms, and the industrialization process is different for different historical periods; the consequences of industrialization are a function of the interpretive nature of human action and resembles a neutral framework within which groups interpret the meaning of industrial relations, and the industrial sector must be viewed in terms of power relations; industrial societies contain inherently conflicting interests. The editors' introductory essay outlines Blumer's metatheoretical stance (symbolic interactionism) and its emphasis on the adjustive character of social life. It places Blumer's theory in the context of contemporary macro theory, including world systems theory, resource dependence theory, and modernization theory.

Author : Paul A. David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1975-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521098750

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Technical Choice Innovation and Economic Growth by Paul A. David Pdf

Monograph on historical experiences of technological change, Innovation and economic growth in the USA and the UK during the 1800's - covers agricultural mechanization, industrial development and infrastructure change, etc. Bibliography pp. 315 to 324, graphs, references and statistical tables.

Author : David Edgerton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190454265

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The Shock of the Old by David Edgerton Pdf

From the books of H.G. Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in clichéd claims about high technology's ability to change the course of history. Now, in The Shock of the Old, David Edgerton offers a startling new and fresh way of thinking about the history of technology, radically revising our ideas about the interaction of technology and society in the past and in the present. He challenges us to view the history of technology in terms of what everyday people have actually used-and continue to use-rather than just sophisticated inventions. Indeed, many highly touted technologies, from the V-2 rocket to the Concorde jet, have been costly failures, while many mundane discoveries, like corrugated iron, become hugely important around the world. Edgerton reassesses the significance of such acclaimed inventions as the Pill and information technology, and underscores the continued importance of unheralded technology, debunking many notions about the implications of the "information age." A provocative history, The Shock of the Old provides an entirely new way of looking historically at the relationship between invention and innovation.

Author : M. Lundahl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230304932

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Poverty in Haiti by M. Lundahl Pdf

Following the 2010 earthquake catastrophe, this book examines the economic and political challenges facing Haiti. It presents an overview of the country's economic history, and seeks new prospects for economic growth and development in the future.

Author : Nikola Cobeljic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351711395

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The Theory of Investment Cycles in a Socialist Economy by Nikola Cobeljic Pdf

This title was first published in 1968

Author : Zhengbing Hu,Sergey Petoukhov,Ivan Dychka,Matthew He
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030555061

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Advances in Computer Science for Engineering and Education III by Zhengbing Hu,Sergey Petoukhov,Ivan Dychka,Matthew He Pdf

This book comprises high-quality refereed research papers presented at the Third International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering and Education Applications (ICCSEEA2020), held in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 21–22 January 2020, organized jointly by National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, National Aviation University, and the International Research Association of Modern Education and Computer Science. The topics discussed in the book include state-of-the-art papers in computer science, artificial intelligence, engineering techniques, genetic coding systems, deep learning with its medical applications, and knowledge representation with its applications in education. It is an excellent source of references for researchers, graduate students, engineers, management practitioners, and undergraduate students interested in computer science and their applications in engineering and education.

Author : United Nations. Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015015206959

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Transport Modes and Technologies for Development by United Nations. Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs Pdf

Author : M. R. Bhagavan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Economic stabilization
ISBN : UCBK:C058037262

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Technological Implications of Structural Adjustment by M. R. Bhagavan Pdf