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The divergent dynamics of economic growth : studies in adaptive economizing, technological change, and economic development / Richard H. Day

Author
Day, Richard Hollis, 1933-
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
1. The Adaptive, Evolutionary Theory of Divergent Economic Growth -- pt. 1. Global Trends and Adaptive Economics -- 2. Global Trends, World Models, and Human Adaptation -- 3. Adaptive Economic Theory and Modeling -- pt. 2. Technological Change in Agriculture and Industry -- 4. The Economics of Technological Change and the Demise of the Sharecropper.
Summary
"This book explains how changing technology and economizing behavior induce vast changes in productivity, resource allocation, labor utilization, and patterns of living. Economic growth is seen as a process by which businesses, regimes, countries, and the whole world pass through distinct epochs, each emerging from its predecessor and creating the conditions for its successor.
Viewed from a long-run perspective, growth must be characterized as an explosive process marked by turbulent transitions in social and political life as societies adapt to new opportunities, the demise of old ways of living, and the vast increase and redistribution of human populations.
The book is based on a new and unique synthesis of classical economics and contemporary concepts of adaptation and economic evolution. Although it is grounded in analytical methods, the text has been stripped of all equations and with few exceptions is devoid of technical jargon."--Jacket
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0511062885 (electronic bk.)
9780511062889 (electronic bk.)
051112161X (electronic bk.)
9780511121616 (electronic bk.)
9780511510700 (electronic bk.)
0511510705 (electronic bk.)
9780511071348 (electronic bk.)
0511071345 (electronic bk.)
1280161582
9781280161582
9786610161584
6610161585
0511205902 (electronic bk.)
9780511205903 (electronic bk.)
9780521681056 (paperback)
0521681057
0521830192 (Cloth)
9780521830195
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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