Arbeitspapier

Electronics, Economic Growth and Employment – Revolution or Evolution

The 'new electronics technology' in its various manifestations has been very much in the limelight during recent years. It has been associated with future mass unemployment or scary visions of a Brave New World, a grand discontinuity in economic and cultural development. Governments are worried about the effects of the same technology on the international competitiveness of their industries and public investigative committees abound among the western industrialized countries. Some economists regard microelectronics as the new technology that will generate the next Kontradieff cycle. The vast attention paid to this technological phenomenon in itself warrants a serious inquiry into its potential macroeconomic implications even though much of the speculation around it may seem farfetched to the majority of professional economists.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IUI Working Paper ; No. 66

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Microelectronics; Computers; Communications Equipment
Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General
Thema
Microelectronics
R&D
Technological change
Employment

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Eliasson, Gunnar
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)
(wo)
Stockholm
(wann)
1982

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Eliasson, Gunnar
  • The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI)

Entstanden

  • 1982

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