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Rosenberg, Nathan was born on November 22, 1927 in Passaic, New Jersey, United States. Son of Joseph and Mary (Kaplan) Rosenberg.
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The most persistent theme of Nathan Rosenberg's work is a concern with the emergence and diffusion of economic ideas. Bringing together Professor Rosenberg's many contributions to the history of economic thought, this volume offers a series of important insights on how economics itself emerged as a distinct discipline. The Emergence of Economic Ideas extends our understanding of the development of capitalist institutions and the manner in which these institutions have contributed to the unique technological dynamism of capitalist societies. The book also - and necessarily - focuses upon the emergence of ideas about capitalism. That is to say, the discipline of economics is itself a body of ideas, and analytical techniques, that have been developed over the past two centuries in order to explain how capitalist economies have developed and how they work. Professor Rosenberg examines the key contributions - from Mandeville, Adam Smith, Babbage, Marx, Schumpeter and Stigler - in the growth of this critical collection of ideas. Economists interested in the emergence of their discipline and historians of ideas will welcome this collection which will make Professor Rosenberg's many substantial contributions more widely accessible to teachers, students and researchers.
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How did the West—Europe, Canada, and the United States—escape from immemorial poverty into sustained economic growth and material well-being when other societies remained trapped in an endless cycle of birth, hunger, hardship, and death? In this elegant synthesis of economic history, two scholars argue that it is the political pluralism and the flexibility of the West's institutions—not corporate organization and mass production technology—that explain its unparalleled wealth.
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(Economists have long treated technological phenomena as e...)
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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(In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perce...)
In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth". Updating and expanding its basic arguments and perceptions, this volume is an inquiry into the fundamental factors, needs, prospects, and limits of modern Chinese society.
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This book presents a unique account of how technological change is generated and the processes by which improved technologies are introduced into economic activity. The central theme of the book is the idea that technological changes are often "path dependent": their form and direction tend to be influenced strongly by the particular sequence of earlier events out of which a new technology has emerged. Individual chapters explore the particular features of new technologies in different historical and sectoral contexts.
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(Technology's contribution to economic growth and competit...)
Technology's contribution to economic growth and competitiveness has been the subject of vigorous debate in recent years. This book demonstrates the importance of a historical perspective in understanding the role of technological innovation in the economy. The authors examine key episodes and institutions in the development of the U.S. research system and in the development of the research systems of other industrial economies. They argue that the large potential contributions of economics to the understanding of technology and economic growth have been constrained by the narrow theoretical framework employed within neoclassical economies. A richer framework, they believe, will support a more fruitful dialogue among economists, policymakers, and managers on the organization of public and private institutions for innovation. David Mowery is Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy at the School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley. Nathan S. Rosenberg is Fairleigh Dickinson Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He is the author of Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics (CUP, 1983).
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Rosenberg, Nathan was born on November 22, 1927 in Passaic, New Jersey, United States. Son of Joseph and Mary (Kaplan) Rosenberg.
Bachelor of Arts, Rutgers University, 1950; Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1955.
Lecturer, Indiana U., Bloomington, 1955-1957; assistant professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1957-1961; associate professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 1961-1964; professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 1964-1967; visiting professor, Harvard University, 1967-1969; professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1969-1974; professor Economic History, Cambridge U., United Kingdom, 1989-1990; professor economics, Stanford University, California, since 1974.
( How did the West—Europe, Canada, and the United States—...)
(Economists have long treated technological phenomena as e...)
(The authors argue persuasively that it is the political p...)
(This book presents a unique account of how technological ...)
(Technology's contribution to economic growth and competit...)
(Technology's contribution to economic growth and competit...)
(The most persistent theme of Nathan Rosenberg's work is a...)
(In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perce...)
(In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perce...)
Served as sergeant/C.E. United States Army, 1945-1947, Korea. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy Engineering (foreign);member American Economics Association, Economics History Association, Royal Economics Society.
Married Rina Gordon, January 12, 1954. Children: Karen, Gordon, Jonathan, David.