Forces of production : a social history of industrial automation / David F Noble

By:

Noble, David F

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, 2011Description: xviii, 409p. 23cmISBN:

9781412818285

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DDC classification:

303.483 NOB

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This provocative study explains how dominant institutions like the great corporations, the universities, and the military, along with the ideology of modern engineering shape, the development of technology. This book begins with a critique of conventional (neoclassical) economics and an overview of the antecedents of institutional economics. The core of the book is formed by the chapters on institutions, human economic behavior and needs, arguing that institutional change is key to directing economic development towards sustainable and adequate living conditions, rather than merely formal growth formulas.

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