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Technology and reality
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ISBN: 9024725194 9400974574 9400974558 9789024725199 Year: 1982 Publisher: The Hague Nijhoff

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Zur Sozialphilosophie der Technik.
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ISBN: 3518280147 Year: 1982 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp

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Dictionnaire des sigles et abréviations techniques et scientifiques.
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ISBN: 2852061449 9782852061446 Year: 1982 Publisher: Paris Technique et documentation Lavoisier

Technology and social complexity
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ISBN: 0873956443 0873956451 Year: 1982 Publisher: Albany State university of New York press

Fachsprachenforschung und -lehre : Schwerpunkt Spanish
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ISBN: 3878089961 9783878089964 Year: 1982 Volume: 177 Publisher: Tübingen Narr

Inside the black box
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ISBN: 0521248086 0521273676 0511002483 0511611943 9780521273671 9780511002489 9780521248082 9780511611940 Year: 1982 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Economists have long treated technological phenomena as events transpiring inside a black box and, on the whole, have adhered rather strictly to a self-imposed ordinance not to inquire too seriously into what transpires inside that box. The purpose of Professor Rosenberg's work is to break open and examine the contents of the black box. In so doing, a number of important economic problems be powerfully illuminated. The author clearly shows how specific features of individual technologies have shaped a number of variables of great concern to economists: the rate of productivity improvement, the nature of learning processes underlying technological change itself, the speed of technology transfer, and the effectiveness of government policies that are intended to influence technologies in particular ways. The separate chapters of this book reflect a primary concern with some of the distinctive aspects of industrial technologies in the twentieth century, such as the increasing reliance upon science, but also the considerable subtlety and complexity of the dialectic between science and technology. Other concerns include the rapid growth in the development of costs associated with new technologies as well as the difficulty of predicting the eventual performance characteristics of newly emerging technologies.

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