Technology, Growth, and Development

• Part I: Productivity and Economic Growth1: Is Economic Growth Sustainable?Doomsters and BoomstersThe Dismal SceneLimits to GrowthProductivity GrowthThe Book PlanReferencesFiguresTable2: Catching Up and Falling BehindThe Convergence ControversyGrowth EconomicsAccounting for Economic GrowthFalling BehindPerspectiveReferencesBoxesTablesFiguresAppendix 2Technical Change and Productivity Growth: The Simple AnalyticsFiguresPart II: The Sources of Technical Change3: The Process of Invention and InnovationThe Process of Invention and InventionCumulative Synthesis: Three CasesLinkages Between Science and TechnologyThe Research InstitutionLearning by Doing and UsingPerspectiveReferencesBoxFigures4: Technical and Institutional InnovationSources of Technical ChangeSources of Institutional InnovationA Pattern Model of Induced InnovationReferencesBoxesTablesFigures5: Technology Adaption, Diffusion, and TransferConvergence of TraditionsThe Diffusion of Agricultural TechnologyDiffusion of Industrial TechnologyNew Theory and New MethodThe Product Cycle and International TradeEndogenous Growth and Technology TransferThe Costs of Technology TransferResistance to TechnologyPerspectiveReferencesTableFiguresPart III: Technical Innovation and Industrial Change6: Technical Change and Agricultural DevelopmentModels of Agricultural DevelopmentInduced Technical Change in AgricultureScientific and Technical ConstraintsResource and Environmental ConstraintsAgricultural Research SystemsLessons From ExperienceReferencesBoxTablesFigures7: Light, Power, and EnergyThe Battle of the SystemsThe Transformation of Industrial Energy UseThe Great Oil ShockThe Exhaustion of ScaleInstitutional InnovationWhat Happened to Alternative Policy?PerspectivesReferencesBoxTablesFigures8: The Chemical IndustryInventors, Inventions and Technical ChangeChemical Engineering and the Petrochemical RevolutionInternational DiffusionMaturityPerspectiveReferencesBoxTablesFigures9: The Computer and Semi-conductor IndustriesFrom Calcuators to ComputersIBM Sets the Mainframe StandardThe Transistor ResolutionMicrocomputers and MinicomputersThe Software IndustryInternational DiffusionIndustrial PolicyComputers and Economic GrowthComputers and SocietyReferencesBoxesFiguresTables10: The Biotechnology IndustriesFrom Biological Technology to BiotechnologyMolecular Biology and BiotechnologyThe University-Industrial ComplexInstitutional InnovationCommercial BiotechnologyMarket StructureIndustrial Policy and International CompetitionBiotechnology and The Food IndustriesBiotechnology in the Twenty-First CenturyReferencesBoxesTablesFiguresPart IV: Technology Policy11: Technical Change in Three SystemsAmerican Systems of Technical InnovationThe Japanese SystemGerman Systems of Technical InnovationSystems of Technical InnovationTechnology, Trade, and CompetitivenessPerspectiveReferencesBoxTablesFigures12: Technology, Resources, and EnvironmentThree Waves of ConcernResource EconomicsEnvironmental EconomicsEcological EconomicsEnvironmental Impacts of ProductionEnvironmental Impacts of ConsumptionEmission TradingGlobal Climate ChangePerspectiveReferencesBoxesTablesFigurs13: Science and Technology PolicyPrinciples of Science and Technology PolicyThe Patent SystemMilitary ProcurementPolitics of Science and Technology PolicyExperience with Public InvestmentPerspectiveReferencesBoxesFiguresTables14: The Transition to Sustainable DevelopmentWhat Have We Learned?The Sustainability CritiqueModeling the FutureSustainability TransitionsIntellectual ChangesPerspectiveReferencesFigure

"This big book is the product of a lifetime of serious and creative scholarship. I can think of no other scholar who has worked more systematically, and with greater dedication, to illuminate the multiple and sometimes elusive aspects of technological change than Vernon Ruttan."--Nathan Rosenberg, Department of Economics, Stanford University"Vernon Ruttan has written an encyclopedic volume on the role of technology in economic growth in both industrialized and poorer countries. The book contains a superb integration of the recent insights of new growth theory and detailed studies of the process of technological innovation at the microeconomic level. The extraordinary scope of the volume ranges from new insights on the extent to which the U.S. consumer price index is affected by technical changeto a detailed examination of the development of the microprocessor. Intensive studies of developments in chemical industries, agricultural technology, and dozens of other industries provide theempirical underpinning for a masterful discussion of induced innovation. This book will be the starting point for all researchers interested in further studies in the area." --Howard Pack, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania"Worthy of a Nobel Prize."-Rondo Cameron, William Rand Kenan University Professor Emeritus, Emory University"A necessary reading for all students interested in economic development."--Peter Chow, The City College of New York