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Governance, Growth and Global Leadership Espen Moe

Governance, Growth and Global Leadership By Espen Moe

Governance, Growth and Global Leadership by Espen Moe


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Focuses on the role of the state in promoting a country's long-term technological progress and industrial leadership. This study looks at Schumpeterian growth, which credits the ability to use technological progress for the benefit of industrial leadership as the key motor of national development and economic success.

Governance, Growth and Global Leadership Summary

Governance, Growth and Global Leadership: The Role of the State in Technological Progress, 17502000 by Espen Moe

This book focuses on the role of the state in promoting a country's long-term technological progress and industrial leadership. Throughout history, a nation's rise to dominance has invariably been followed by its fall; the dominant powers of today are not the same ones that controlled the world three hundred years ago. In the same manner, economic dominance has usually been fleeting, as leading nations have routinely been caught up and surpassed by challengers. This study looks at Schumpeterian growth - currently the most important source of economic growth - which credits the ability to use technological progress for the benefit of industrial leadership as the key motor of national development and economic success. Contrasting the experiences of five great powers (Britain, France, Germany, the USA and Japan) during five periods of technological and industrial leadership, from the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the twenty-first century, the book draws on historical and comparative methods to draw causal inferences about international progress and leadership. It explores various factors that promote or hinder technological advancement and how these can in turn effect national development. It concludes that where states have forged ahead and maintained a lead over their rivals, it is because consensus and cohesion prevented vested interests from growing powerful enough to block structural economic change. By applying economic theory to long-term historical models, this book offers a fascinating perspective on the causes and effects of national growth and industrial leadership. It will be invaluable reading for anyone with an interest in international relations and global economic trends, both modern and historical.

Governance, Growth and Global Leadership Reviews

Governance, Growth and Global Leadership tells a compelling story of technological progress since 1750. Economic historians, particularly those with a strong interest in economic growth and development, will enjoy it. EH.NET

About Espen Moe

Espen Moe is a political scientist and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Program for Industrial Ecology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.

Table of Contents

Contents: General editor's preface; Introduction; The cotton textile industry; The iron industry; The chemical industry; The automobile industry; Information and communication technologies; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

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NPB9780754657439
9780754657439
0754657434
Governance, Growth and Global Leadership: The Role of the State in Technological Progress, 17502000 by Espen Moe
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2007-02-26
320
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