Abstract
One of the things that all knowledgeable people supposedly “know” is that technological change has been the critical variable in accounting for the spectacular long-term growth of the American economy and our resulting present affluence. And yet, when scholars of a quantitative turn of mind have attempted to link the story of the growing productivity of the American economy to some of the better-known facts and landmarks of our technological history, that story has turned out to be a remarkably difficult one to tell.
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Economic geographyEconomicsEconomy
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- 1983
- Type
- book-chapter
- Pages
- 55-80
- Citations
- 114
- Access
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Nathan Rosenberg
(1983).
Technological interdependence in the American economy.
Cambridge University Press eBooks
, 55-80.
https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511611940.004
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- DOI
- 10.1017/cbo9780511611940.004