A sustained critique of mainstream economic theory and discussion of the development of an alternative. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author(s): Giovanni Dosi; Christopher Freeman; Richard Nelson; Gerald Silverberg; Luc Soete
Series: IFIAS research series 6
Edition: 1
Publisher: Pinter
Year: 1988
Language: English
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Pages: 664
City: London
Tags: Technological innovations
Technical Change and Economic Theory. Edited by G. Dosi, C. Freeman, R. Nelson, G. Silverberg, L. Soete. Pinter Publisher, London and New York. (1988)
Contents
Part I - Introduction
1. Introduction, - C. Freeman
Part II - Evolution, technology, and institutions: a wider framework for economic analysis
Preface - C. Freeman
2. Coordination and transformation: an overview of structures, behaviours and change in evolutionary environments - G. Dosi and L. Orsenigo
3. Structural crises of adjustment: business cycles and investment behaviour - C. Freeman and C. Perez
4. Technical change and the theory of regulation - R. Boyer
5. Evolution, innovation and economics - P.M. Allen
Part III - How well does established theory work
Preface - G. Dosi
6. Coordination and order in economic change and the interpretative power of economic theory - F. Coricelli and G. Dosi
7. Imperfect decisions and routinized production: implications for evolutionary modelling and inertial technical change - R. Heiner
8. On the dynamics of aggregate macroequations: from simple microbehaviour to complex macrorelationships - M. Lippi
9. Evolutionary theories in economic thought - N. Clark and C. Juma
Part IV - Innovation and the evolution of firms
Preface - R. Nelson
10. The nature of innovative process - G. Dosi
11. Towards the economics of information-intensive production systems: the case of advanced materials - M. Willingner and E. Zuscovitch
12. Technological change and the nature of the firm - D. Teece
13. The R and D function: corporate strategy and structure - N. Kay
14. Technological opportunities and industrial organization - R. Coombs
Part V - National Systems of innovation
Preface - R. Nelson
15. Institutions supporting technical change in the United States - R. Nelson
16. Japan: a new national system of innovations? - C. Freeman
17. Innovation as an interactive process: from user-producer interaction to the national system of innovation - B.A. Lundvall
18. Can the innovation system capitalism be outperformed? - P. Pelikan
Part VI - International diffusion of technology and international trade competition
Preface - L. Soete
19. Technical change and international trade - G. Dosi and L. Soete
20. Why growth rates differ - J. Fagerberg
21. Catching up in technology: entry barriers and windows of opportunity - C. Perez and L. Soete
22. Industrial structure, technical change and microeconomic behaviour in LDCs - K. Unger
23. Multinational enterprises and the international diffusion of technology - F. Chesnais
Part VII - Formal Models
Preface - G. Silverberg
24. Modelling economic dynamics and technical change: mathematical approaches to self-organisation and evolution - G. Silverberg
25. The diffusion of innovations: an interpretative survey - J. Metcalfe
26. Competing technologies: an overview - W.B. Arthur
27. Formalizing growth regimes - R. Boyer
Part VIII - Conclusions
28. Policy Conclusions - R. Nelson and L. Soete
Index
