Structural Change in the American Economy / Anne P. Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Anne P., author.

Series:

Harvard Studies in Technology and Society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Input-output tables--United States.

Technological innovations--United States.

United States--Economic conditions--1945-.

Local Subjects:

Input-output tables--United States.

Technological innovations--United States.

United States--Economic conditions--1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Figures

Tables

Part I. Structural Change and Industrial Specialization

Chapter 1. Structural and Technological Change

Chapter 2. The Data

Chapter 3. Basic Methodology and Notation

Chapter 4. Outlines of Changing Industrial Specialization

Chapter 5. General Inputs

Chapter 6. Competition among Basic Materials

Chapter 7. Changing Equipment Requirements and the Internal Structure of the Metalworking Block

Part II. Structural Change and Economic Efficiency

Chapter 8. Changing Labor and Capital Requirements

Chapter 9. Structural Change and Prices

Chapter 10. Old and New Structures as Alternatives: Optimal Combination of 1947 and 1958 Technologies

Chapter 11. Interdependence and Independence of Structural Advantage

Chapter 12. A Linear Programming System Analyzing Embodied Technological Change

Chapter 13. Conclusion

Appendices References Index

APPENDIX A. SENSITIVITY OF MEASURES OF CHANGING INDUSTRIAL SPECIALIZATION TO THE ASSUMED STRUCTURE OF FINAL DEMAND

APPENDIX B. CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES

APPENDIX C. 38-ORDER DATA

APPENDIX D. 76-ORDER DATA

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-49362-1

OCLC:

1013936784