Technological foundations of cyclical economic growth
Subtitle: the case of the United States economy
By: Nathan Edmonson.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781412810128
Subjects: Technological innovations -- United States; Business cycles -- United States; Industrial policy -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Basic concepts; title: The nineteenth century's legacy : invention and discovery to 1910; title: Innovation and prosperity, 1900-1930; title: Technology and depression; title: Materials : enablers in the twentieth century; title: Government fostering of invention/innovation after 1940; title: Government regulation and technology; title: Computers and other electronics; title: Light; title: Medical and related technology; title: On technology and the postwar economy; title: Technologies that develop slowly; title: On invention and innovation; title: On choice among new technologies.