Technology and Capital Formation - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262100398 ISBN 13 : 9780262100397

Editeur : The MIT Press, 1989

Synopsis

The contributions in this book bring a wealth of detailed empirical data and an unusually wide range of perspectives—from universities, government, and business—to bear on the exploration of this important interrelationship; they focus, in particular, on the role of capital in the production process.

Capital formation is the most important source of economic growth, and investment in new capital interacts in key ways with the diffusion of new technology. The contributions in this book bring a wealth of detailed empirical data and an unusually wide range of perspectives—from universities, government, and business—to bear on the exploration of this important interrelationship; they focus, in particular, on the role of capital in the production process. Grouped into three broad categories, they take up the rate of technological advance and investment in computers, the relative efficiency of new and old capital goods, and the translation of capital formation into productive inputs in the private and government sectors of the U.S. economy.

Dale W. Jorgenson looks at previous research to explain the controversy that began in the 1960s regarding capital as a factor of production. Computer prices are examined extensively and in great detail in two important studies by Ellen Dulberger and Robert Gordon, while Jack Triplett discusses the economic and engineering literature on the subject. Empirical research by Charles Hulten, James Robertson, and Frank Wykoff disproves the hypothesis that deterioration in the efficiency of older capital goods as a result of the 1970s energy crisis explains the subsequent slowdown in production growth. Wykoff offers a particularly rich study of the depreciation of business leased automobiles.

Other Contributors
Paul Pieper on the state of construction price statistics; Michael Harper, Ernst Berndt, and David Wood on alternative approaches to measuring the rate of return; John Strong on the market value of debt claims in U.S. financial markets; Dianne and Laurits Christensen, Carl Degen and Philip Schoech on the U.S. Postal Service; Michael Boskin, Marc Robinson and John Roberts on estimating federal government capital and net investment; and Ralph Landau on the interrelationship of technology and capital formation

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dale W. Jorgenson is Samuel W. Morris University Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Ralph Landau was the founder of Scientific Design Company, Inc., and received more than 50 honors and awards in his lifetime, including the National Medal of Technology, the Founders Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Chemical Industry Medal, and the Perkin Medal.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262100398
• ISBN 13: 9780262100397
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 539
• Éditeur: Jorgenson Dale W., Landau Ralph
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