Abstract
Part I. Some origins of American technology: 1. Technological change in the machine tool industry, 1840-1910 2. America's rise to woodworking leadership 3. Anglo-American wage differences in the 1820's Part II. The generation of new technologies: 4. Problems in the economist's conceptualization of technological innovation 5. Neglected dimensions in the analysis of economic change 6. The direction of technological change: inducement mechanisms and focusing devices 7. Karl Marx on the economic role of science Part III. Diffusion and adaptation of technology: 8. Capital goods, technology, and economic growth 9. Economic development and the transfer of technology: some historical perspectives 10. Selection and adaptation in the transfer of technology: steam and iron in America 1800-1870 11. Factors affecting the diffusion of technology Part IV. Natural resources, environment and the growth of knowledge: 12. Technology and the environment: an economic exploration 13. Technological innovation and natural resources: the niggardliness of nature reconsidered 14. Innovative responses to materials shortages 15. Science, invention, and economic growth.
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