Foreword: The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and this
Book
Preface: Why Another Book on Growth?
Acknowledgements
GROWTH, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND GENERAL PURPOSE TECHNOLOGIES
1: Technology as Revolution
2: Two Views of Economic Processes
3: A Structuralist Evolutionary Decomposition
4: Technology and Technological Change
5: A Survey of GPTs in Western History: Part I 10,000 BC to 1450
AD
6: A Survey Of GPTs in Western History: Part II 1450 to 2010
THE TRANSITION TO SUSTAINED GROWTH
7: The Emergence of Sustained Extensive Growth in the West
8: Why Not Elsewhere?
9: Population Dynamics: Extensive and Intensive Growth Related
10: The Emergence of Sustained Intensive Growth in the West
MODELLING SUSTAINED GPT-DRIVEN GROWTH
11: GPTs and Related Concepts in the Literature
12: Scale Economies in Economic Growth
13: Appreciative Theories of GPTs
14: Formal Models Of GPT-Driven Sustained Growth: The Base Line
Model
15: Formal Models of GPT-Driven Sustained Growth: Extensions and
Applications
POLICY
16: Technology Enhancement Policy: Theory and Evidence
17: Assessing Technology Enhancement Policies
CO-WINNER OF THE 2006 SCHUMPETER PRIZE FOR THE BEST WRITING ON EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS IN THE LAST TWO YEARS
Dr. Richard G. Lipsey is currently a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University. He received his B.A. from U.B.C. in 1951, M.A. from Toronto in 1953 and PhD from London School of Economics in 1957. He has held a chair in Economics at the London School of Economics and was chairman of the Department of Economics and dean of the Faculty of Social Science at the new University of Essex, England from 1964 to 1970. From 1970 to 1986, he was Sir Edward Peacock Professor of Economics, Queen's University. From 1983 to 1989, he was Senior Economic Advisor for the C.D. Howe Institute. From 1989 until 2002 he was a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research where he organised and participated in a large-scale, international research project on Economic Growth and Policy. He has held visiting professorships at the Universities of California at Berkeley, Colorado, Yale, UBC, Manchester, and City University (London). Dr. Kenneth I. Carlaw is currently Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Dr. Carlaw received his B.A. (1992), M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (2000) from Simon Fraser University, Canada. Dr. Carlaw has held a lecturer position at the University of Canterbury from 2000 to 2002. He was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University in 2003. Dr. Carlaw has published over 25 articles on aspects of economic growth, technological change, productivity and policy. Dr. Clifford T. Bekar is Associate Professor of Economics, Lewis and Clark College.
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