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and technology, science and technology became increasingly incomprehensible to all but a few specialists. Maintaining a … policies relevant to science and technology. But could popularisations really supply sufficient information to validate those …During the same period in which political decisions became increasingly indistinguishable from decisions about science …
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GPT can be defined as "a technology that initially has much scope for improvement and evntually comes to be widely used …). Subsequently, as the scope of the technology is finally exhausted, its impact on growth will fade away. If, at that point, a new …
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The usual way to evaluate the implications of new technology for economic growth is through growth accounting … technology (ICT) and the results have dominated thinking on the post-1995 growth resurgence in the United States (Oliner and …
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This paper examines pre-colonial interaction among polities along the Konkan coast, from Surat to Goa, during the long half-century c.1680-1756. Specifically it uses the dynasty of the Angrias, who were deemed pirates by the European powers but were actually an integral part of the Maratha...
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both “engagement” and“understanding” as a way to characterize public participation insocial science – as opposed to natural … science – knowledgediscussions.[...] …
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systems. Ideas from metrology, and from the philosophy and sociology of science, are used to analyse various attempts to …
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Chronicling the history of science and health popularisation in the United States, John C. Burnham sees a decline from … the Victorian “men of science” to a situation in the mid-1980s where what passed as the popularisation of science …
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and experience, theexperimental accounts from agricultural science. The content of hisarguments, and his derivation of the …
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This lecture is not in any sense a survey of the …field. It is a highlyselective and personal view of the motivation behind the fi…eld and some ofthe key themes that link the literature. Thus, it represents a manifestopresented in the hope that somebody who encounters these ideas for the...
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[...]The loss of manufacturing jobs has created a widespreadsense that manufacturing in New York City has nofuture, that the decline is unstoppable and “largely inevitableand foreordained” (Fitch 1993, p. 107). Even theoptimistic report of the Commission on the Year 2000,New York Ascendant,...
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