from the industrial revolutions to the information revolution /
Chris Freeman and Francisco Louçã.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
1 online resource (xv, 407 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The fundamental things apply -- Restless Clio : a story of the economic historians' assessment of history in economics -- Schumpeter's plea for reasoned history -- Nikolai Kondratiev : a new approach to history and statistics -- The strange attraction of tides and waves -- A theory of reasoned history -- Technical change and long waves in economic development -- The British industrial revolution : the age of cotton, iron and water power -- The second Kondratiev wave : the age of iron railways, steam power and mechanization -- The third Kondratiev wave : the age of steel, heavy engineering and electrification -- The fourth Kondratiev wave : the great depression and the age of oil, automobiles, motorization and mass production -- The emergence of a new techno-economic paradigm : the age of information and communication technology (ICT) -- Recurrent phenomena of the long waves of capitalist development.
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Putting the IT revolution in the perspective of previous waves of technical change, e.g. electrification, the authors argue for a theory of reasoned economic history which assigns a central place to these successive technological revolutions.
As time goes by.
9780199241071
Industrial revolution.
Information technology-- History.
Long waves (Economics)-- History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Microeconomics.