Explaining Technology - Elements in Evolutionary Economics

Explaining Technology

Explaining Technology - Elements in Evolutionary Economics

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A long tradition explains technological change as recombination. Within this tradition, this Element develops an innovative combinatorial model of technological change and tests it with 2,000 years of global GDP data and with data from US patents filed between 1835 and 2010. The model explains 1) the pace of technological change for a least the past two millennia, 2) patent citations and 3) the increasing complexity of tools over time. It shows that combining and modifying pre-existing goods to produce new goods generates the observed historical pattern of technological change. A long period of stasis was followed by sudden super-exponential growth in the number of goods. In this model, the sudden explosion of about 250 years ago is a combinatorial explosion that was a long time in coming, but inevitable once the process began at least two thousand years ago. This Element models the Industrial Revolution as a combinatorial explosion.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781009386258
ISBN10 1009386255
Number Of Pages 86
Item Weight 140 g
Product Dimensions 152 x 228 x 5 mm
Publisher / Reseller Cambridge University Press
Format paperback
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