Technology and American Economic Growth
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Technology and American Economic Growth

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eBook - ePub

Technology and American Economic Growth

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In 1982, Vaclav Smil turned upside down traditional perceptions of China as a green paradise in "The Bad Earth". Updating and expanding its basic arguments and perceptions, this volume is an inquiry into the fundamental factors, needs, prospects, and limits of modern Chinese society.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9781315496559
Topic
Negocios y empresa
Subtopic
Negocios en general

Index

Abramovitz, Moses, 6n
Abrasives, 107
Acreage-worker ratio. See Agriculture
AEC (Atomic Energy Commission), 182
Agricultural sector, in commodity output, table, 88
declining importance of, 9
Agriculture, acreage-worker ratio, 25–26
as ecological disturbance, 193, 196–198
fertilizers, 137–138, 196, table, 140
horses in, 89n, 142n, table, 135
input expenditures, table, 143n
internal combustion engine in, 135, table, 136
labor force in, 130, 135, 138, table, 136–137
land-saving and labor-saving effects, 142
man-hours per unit of production, table, 136–137
mechanization, 25–26, 89, 96n, 132, 134–135, 169, table, 135
output, index number, 143n
plant breeding, 127–134; hybrid corn, 40, 53, 130–132, 166, 172–173, 175n, table, 133
plants of New and Old Worlds, 129–130n
primitive and modern, 23
productivity, 11, 135–138, table, 136–137
research in, 176
steam power in, 90n
technological and scientific improvements, 127–140, 142–144
technological lag, 168n
westward expansion, 26, 128
Air pollution, 186, 189–196
Alexander, W. O., 153n
Alfalfa, 128
Alkali, synthetic, 21
Allen, Zachariah, 66n
Aluminum, 144n, 148–150, 153
American Journal of Science, 54
American Machinist, 101–102
“American System of Manufacturing,” 87–90
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, 99
Anderson, John, 97n
Antibiotics, 16
Architecture, balloon-frame houses, 29–30, 47
Vaux’s recommendations, 47–48
Arrow, Kenneth, 37n, 173n
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. I Technology in Historical Perspective
  9. II The Economic Matrix
  10. III The Nineteenth Century: America as Borrower
  11. IV The Nineteenth Century: America as Initiator
  12. V The Twentieth Century
  13. VI Technology and Social Options
  14. Index