Chris Freeman, Francisco Louca, Francisco Lou

As Time Goes by from the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution (Paperback)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Internet and mobile telephones have made everyone more aware than ever of the computer revolution and its effects on the economy and society. 'As Time Goes By' puts this revolution in the perspective of previous waves of technical change: steam-powered mechanization, electrification, and motorization. It argues for a theory of reasoned economic history which assigns a central place to these successive technological revolutions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 641g
• ISBN-13: 9780199251056
• ISBN-10: 0199251053
• Artikelnr.: 21914859

Autorenporträt

Chris Freeman is Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex and was the founder and former Director of SPRU (1966-81). SPRU has become one of the leading world centres for research on technical change. After war-time service in the Manchester Regiment and experience in market research, Chris Freeman became a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (1959-66), and later a Visiting Professor at the University of Limburg, Maastricht. Francisco Louçã is a Portuguese Member of Parliament, serving in the Economic and Budgetary Commission. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Lisbon, under the supervision of Chris Freeman. His thesis, entitled Turbulence in Economics has since been published in both English and Portuguese (Edward Elgar/Afrontamento, 1997).

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: History and Economics
* Introduction: The Fundamental Things Apply
* 1: Restless Clio: A Story of the Economic Historians' Assessment of
History in Economics
* 2: Schumpeter's Plea for Reasoned History
* 3: Nikolai Kondratiev: A New Approach to History and Statistics
* 4: The Strange Attraction of Tides and Waves
* Conclusions to Part I: A Theory of Reasoned History
* Part II: Successive Industrial Revolutions
* Introduction: Technical Change and Long Waves in Economic Development
* 5: The British Industrial Revolution: The Age of Cotton, Iron, and
Water Power
* 6: The Second Kondratiev Wave: The Age of Iron Railways, Steam Power,
and Mechanization
* 7: The Third Kondratiev Wave: The Age of Steel, Heavy Engineering,
and Electrification
* 8: The Fourth Kondratiev Wave: The Great Depression and the Age of
Oil, Automobiles, Motorization, and Mass Production
* 9: The Emergence of a New Techno-economic Paradigm: The Age of
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
* Conclusions to Part II: Recurrent Phenomena of the Long Waves of
Capitalist Development