Economists have frequently treated technological change as exogenous, as having important economic consequences but not being controlled by economic forces. This justifies reporting a current attempt to develop an international, interdisciplinary discussion of exogenous factors in economics.
Nathan Rosenberg. . 1974. . ‘Science, invention, and economic growth’. . Economic Journal . , Vol. 84((333)) Perspectives on Technology
See Nathan Rosenberg, Inside the Black Box, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982.
E.g., R.R. Nelson and S.G. Winter, An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1982.
As reflected in the contributions to S. Macdonald, D. McL. Lamberton and T.D. Mandeville, The Trouble with Technology, Frances Pinter and St. Martin's Press, London and New York, 1983.
John Kasson F.. 1977. . Civilizing the Machine — Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776–1900 . , p. ix Harmondsworth : : Penguin. .
IDEA Newsletter, 1, December 1983. A similar presentation was made at the 7th World Congress of Economics, Madrid, 1983.
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Gudmund Hemes. . 1976. . ‘Structural change in social processes’. . American Journal of Sociology . , Vol. 82:: 513––47. .