from the industrial revolutions to the information revolution /
First Statement of Responsibility
Chris Freeman and Francisco Louçã.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2001.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xv, 407 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
As time goes by.
International Standard Book Number
9780199241071
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Industrial revolution.
Information technology-- History.
Long waves (Economics)-- History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Microeconomics.