This essay is a foray into the debatable borderland between history, technology and economics. On the history of technical processes there exist several works, pre-eminent among them the great five-volumed History of Technology. But few historians of technology have shown interest in the models of the economists; and the theorists have concentrated on analysis or on problems of contemporary technology. The present work is an attempt to re-examine some of the more familiar nineteenth-century developments in technology. It originated in lectures given at Columbia University in the autumn of 1958.
Author: H. J. Habakkuk
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Date: 30 Sep 2008
This essay is a foray into the debatable borderland between history, technology and economics. On the history of technical processes there exist several works, pre-eminent among them the great five-volumed History of Technology. But few historians of technology have shown interest in the models of the economists; and the theorists have concentrated on analysis or on problems of contemporary technology. The present work is an attempt to re-examine some of the more familiar nineteenth-century developments in technology. It originated in lectures given at Columbia University in the autumn of 1958.
Author: H. J. Habakkuk
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Date: 30 Sep 2008
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