Agents interacting on a body of water choose between technologiesto catch …sh. One is harmless to the resource, as it allows full recovery;the other yields high immediate catches, but low(er) future catches.Strategic interaction in one ‘objective’resource game may induceseveral ‘subjective’...

There is currently much hope about environmental innovation and green technologies, notablyas a response to the threat of climate change. This paper offers a critical perspective on the roleof technological innovation to solving environmental problems, based on considering empiricaleconomic...

The issue of technological unemployment receives perennial popular attention. Althoughthere are previous empirical investigations that have focused on the relationship between innovationand employment, the originality of our approach lies in our choice of method. We focus onfour 2-digit...

Technology and technological change play a central role in economics, whether in the theory of resource allocation or in the theory of growth and development. Yet the nature of technology is largely ignored in economic theory, it being considered sufficient to treat technology as a constraint on...