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Industrialisation with a menu of technologies
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In this article, the level of fixed costs is assumed to be endogenous with higher levels resulting in progressively higher labour productivity, and it is shown that conclusions regarding the multiplicity of decentralised equilibria are not robust to this change.Citations
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Input Chains and Industrialization
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theoretical examination of industrialization when industrial technologies (ITs) can only be adopted in final-goods production and show that this narrow view of industrialisation alone cannot explain why a small improvement in ITs may trigger full-scale industrialization and a large increase in aggregate income.
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Environmentally appropriate technology under lack of resources and knowledge: Solar-powered cocoa dryer in rural Nias, Indonesia
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Technological Progress Through Trade Liberalization in Transition Countries
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The Economy of Cities
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Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss and promote Karl Marx's influential method of studying technology as the result of interrelated social processes, emphasizing the mutual interaction between technology and the economy, and conclude that scientific progress is heavily influenced by technological considerations that are, in turn, shaped by industry and economics.
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
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