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Environment, technology and economic growth : the challenge to sustainable development

Tylecote, Andrew (ed.); Straaten, Jan van der (ed.) - 1997

disaster and to end mass unemployment by accelerating and redirecting world economic growth. This major volume brings together … microelectronics and biotechnology, which is now transforming the world economy, and sets it in the context of long term fluctuations …

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Employment, growth, and finance : economic reality, and economic growth

Davidson, Paul (ed.); Kregel, J. A. (ed.) - 1994

This important new book brings together a significant body of new essays on some of the central economic problems facing governments, firms and individuals in the 1990s. Under the direction of Paul Davidson and Jan Kregel, an international group of distinguished economists provide new...

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The economics of technology diffusion and energy efficiency

Mulder, Peter - 2005

Technological change plays a crucial role in realizing energy efficiency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic growth and environmental quality. However, the diffusion of new technologies can prove a costly and lengthy process, meaning that many firms do not...

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Growth theory in historical perspective : selected essays of Theo van de Klundert

Klundert, Th van de - 2001

Growth Theory in Historical Perspective is a collection of thirteen carefully selected essays by Theo van de Klundert … which demonstrate the development of growth theory over the past forty years. The sequence of chapters reveals the shifts in …, the focus of growth theory in the 1990s. The author explains how the theory of economic growth is strongly shaped by ideas …