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Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies

Pinch, Trevor (contributor); Swedberg, Richard (contributor) - The MIT Press

Although social scientists generally agree that technology plays a major role in the economy, economics and technology …. This book draws on the tools of science and technology studies and economic sociology to reconceptualize the intersection … of economy and technology, suggesting materiality—the idea that social existence involves not only actors and social …

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Chips and Change: How Crisis Reshapes the Semiconductor Industry

Brown, Clair; Linden, Greg - The MIT Press

For decades the semiconductor industry has been a driver of global economic growth and social change. Semiconductors, particularly the microchips essential to most electronic devices, have transformed computing, communications, entertainment, and industry. In Chips and Change, Clair Brown and...

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Technology and Productivity: The Korean Way of Learning and Catching Up

Lim, Youngil - The MIT Press

In this book Youngil Lim explores the process by which the poverty-stricken agrarian economy of South Korea was transformed over the past three decades into a semi-industrial urban economy. The chief questions Lim addresses are: Where did South Korea's technological knowledge come from? What did...

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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2004

Gertler, Mark (contributor); Rogoff, Kenneth (contributor) - The MIT Press

rates; the stochastic dimension of the American economy; the role of technology as a source of economic fluctuations; and …

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Managing the Flow of Technology: Technology Transfer and the Dissemination of Technological Information Within the R&D Organization

Allen, Thomas J. - The MIT Press

. The first three chapters provide an overview of the communication system in technology, present the author's research …

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Technology and the New Economy

Bai, Chong-En (contributor); Yuen, Chi-Wa (contributor) - The MIT Press

was the rise of information technology. The new technology has had such a significant impact on the economy that "the new … questions about the effects of information technology on various aspects of the economy. The topics include the relationship …

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Specificity and the Macroeconomics of Restructuring

Caballero, Ricardo J. - The MIT Press

technology to opportunistic exploitation of relationship specificity. Economists working on macroeconomics, development, growth …

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Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Reclaiming the Environmental Agenda

Ashford, Nicholas A.; Caldart, Charles C. - The MIT Press

The past twenty-five years have seen a significant evolution in environmental policy, with new environmental legislation and substantive amendments to earlier laws, significant advances in environmental science, and changes in the treatment of science (and scientific uncertainty) by the courts....

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Growth, Volume 1: Econometric General Equilibrium Modeling

Jorgenson, Dale W. - The MIT Press

technology and preferences, such as fixed input-output coefficients. These assumptions are contradicted by the massive evidence …

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Innovation and Small Firms

Acs, Zoltan; Audretsch, David - The MIT Press

findings on the presence of small firms, small-firm entry in manufacturing, small-firm growth and flexible technology, and …

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