The economics of technical change

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The economics of technical change

edited by Edwin Mansfield and Elizabeth Mansfield

（The international library of critical writings in economics / series editor, Mark Blaug, 31）（An Elgar reference collection）

E. Elgar, c1993

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The 25 classic articles in this volume deal with the role of technological change in economic growth, the extent of social and private returns from research and development, the relationship between market structure and technological change, the controversies over intellectual property rights, the processes by which innovations spread, and the management of technology. This volume will prove invaluable to economists, managers and government policymakers.

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CONTENTS PART 1 TECHNICAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 1. Robert M. Solow (1957), 'Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function' 2. Paul M. Romer (1990), 'Endogenous Technological Change' 3. Gene M. Grossman and Elhanan Helpman (1990), 'Comparative Advantage and Long-Run Growth' PART 2 SOCIAL AND PRIVATE RETURNS FROM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 4. Zvi Griliches (1958), 'Research Costs and Social Returns: Hybrid Corn and Related Innovations' 5. Edwin Mansfield, John Rapoport, Anthony Romeo, Samuel Wagner and George Beardsley (1977), 'Social and Private Rates of Return from Industrial Innovations' 6. Jeffrey I.Bernstein and M Ishaq Nadiri (1988), 'Interindustry R&D Spillovers, Rates of Return and Production in High-Tech Industries' 7. Richard R. Nelson (1959), 'The Simple Economics of Basic Scientific Research' 8. Zvi Griliches (1986), 'Productivity, R&D, and Basic Research at the Firm Level in the 1970s' PART 3 MARKET STRUCTURE AND TECHNICAL CHANGE 9. Partha Dasgupta and Joseph Stiglitz (1980), 'Industrial Structure and the Nature of Innovative Activity' 10. P. A. Geroski (1990), 'Innovation, Technological Opportunity, and Market Structure' 11. F. M. Schere (1992), 'Schumpeter and Plausible Capitalism' PART 4 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS 12. Suzanne Scotchmer (1991), 'Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Cumulative Research and the Patent Law' 13. Janusz A. Ordover (1991), 'A Patent System for Both Diffusion and Exclusion' 14. Edwin Mansfield, Mark Schwartz and Samuel Wagner (1981), 'Imitation Costs and Patents: An Empirical Study' 15. Richard C. Levin, Alvin K. Klevorick, Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter (1987), 'Appropriating the Returns from Industrial Research and Development' PART 5 THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS 16. Edwin Mansfield (1961), 'Technical Change and the Rate of Imitation' 17. Paul A. David (1985), 'Clio and the Economics of QWERTY' 18. Michael L.Katz and Carl Shapiro (1986), 'Technology Adoption in the Presence of Network Externalities' 19. Jennifer F. Reinganum (1981), 'On the Diffusion of New Technology: A Game-Theoretic Approach' PART 6 INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 20. Raymond Vernon (1966), 'International Investment and International Trade in the Product Cycle' 21. Nathan Rosenberg (1970), 'Economic Development and the Transfer of Technology: Some Historical Perspectives' 22. D. J. Teece (1977), 'Technology Transfer by Multinational Firms: The Resource Cost of Transferring Technological Know-How' PART 7 THE MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY 23. Kenneth J. Arrow (1962), 'The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing' 24. Richard R. Nelson (1961), 'Uncertainty, Learning, and the Economics of Parallel Research and Development Efforts' 25. Wesley M.Cohen and Daniel A .Levinthal (1989), 'Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R&D'

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