... Technological change Social sciences Environment Social accounting Faye Duchin belongs to the growing number of economists who rightly believe that economics should be relevant to the real world. The data intensive approach to economic analysis she advocates in her book, namely, sectorally...

... progress exists. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Economics of scale Productivity Technological change This article presents a rejection of the Schumpeterian hypothesis. Schumpeter argued that the wellspring of innovation and technical change is found in giant corporations...

... Funding Investment R&D Research Technological change Technology A country’s eminence in a field of science is not a good guide to its economic strength and growth (Carter and Williams, 1964, p. 197). In the past four decades, the relationship between science, technology and economic...

...Johan R. Stein Focuses on a central phenomenon of industrialized societies, i.e. technological change. Synthesizes mechanisms which have an effect on processes of technological change into three interrelated perspectives:economic, political and cultural. Applies this interdisciplinary approach...

... change, and ending with the causes behind the return of a socialist economy to a market economy. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Economic systems Technological change USSR Market economy Technological Change in the USSR and the Return to a Market Economy Priyatosh Maitra University of Otago, New...