As time goes by [[electronic resource] ] : from the industrial revolutions to the information revolution / / Chris Freeman and Francisco Louçã

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782859903321
• Autore: Freeman Christopher <1921-2010.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
• ISBN: 1-281-94401-7; 9786611944018; 0-19-152905-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): LouçãFrancisco
• Disciplina: 338.5/4
• Soggetti: Long waves (Economics) - History; Information technology - History; Industrial revolution
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-395) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Part I: History and Economics""; ""Introduction: The Fundamental Things Apply""; ""1 Restless Clio: A Story of the Economic Historians' Assessment of History in Economics""; ""2 Schumpeter's Plea for Reasoned History""; ""3 Nikolai Kondratiev: A New Approach to History and Statistics""; ""4 The Strange Attraction of Tides and Waves""; ""Conclusions to Part I: A Theory of Reasoned History""; ""Part II: Successive Industrial Revolutions""; ""Introduction: Technical Change and Long Waves in Economic Development""; ""5 The British Industrial Revolution: The Age of Cotton, Iron, and Water Power""""6 The Second Kondratiev Wave: The Age of Iron Railways, Steam Power, and Mechanization""; ""7 The Third Kondratiev Wave: The Age of Steel, Heavy Engineering, and Electrification""; ""8 The Fourth Kondratiev Wave: The Great Depression and the Age of Oil, Automobiles, Motorization, and Mass Production""; ""9 The Emergence of a New Techno-economic Paradigm: The Age of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)""; ""Conclusions to Part II: Recurrent Phenomena of the Long Waves of Capitalist Development""; ""Epilogue""""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""