Localized and Biased Technologies: Atkinson and Stiglitz's New View, Induced Innovations, and Directed Technological Change / Daron Acemoglu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Acemoglu, Daron.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20060.

NBER working paper series no. w20060

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Localized and Biased Technologies

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014.

Summary:

This paper revisits the important ideas proposed by Atkinson and Stiglitz's seminal 1969 paper on technological change. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological change literature, it explains how these three complementary but different approaches are useful in the study of a range of current research areas— though they may also yield different answers to important questions. It concludes by highlighting several important areas where these ideas can be fruitfully applied in future work.

Notes:

Print version record

April 2014.