Unemployment and Technical Innovation: A Study of Long Waves and Economic DevelopmentStudy on interrelations among unemployment, innovations, business cycles and economic development - discusses the theoretical background, clustering of inventions and innovations (partic. Electronics industry), historical and current trends (1870-1980) and long term fluctuations in research and development, investment, economic growth, economic structure and employment creation, etc.; stresses the need for well-conceived economic policies to simultaneously promote technological change and combat unemployment and inflation. Graphs and references. |
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The dimensions of the unemployment problem | 1 |
Schumpeters theory of business cycles | 18 |
Menschs theory of bunching of basic innovations | 44 |
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