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From: Francisco Louçã [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 March 2001 12:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: new book (please forward this to whom you may
intend)
Dear colleagues,
This is to announce the publication of
a new book
AS TIME GOES
BY - From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information
Revolution
by Chris Freeman and Francisco
Louca
Oxford University Press, 2001
The book (405 pages) includes two main parts:
(1) History and Economics (a discussion of evolutionary perspectives on economic
history, and a critique of cliometrics); (2) The sucessive industrial
revolutions (a detailed research on the major mutations in contemporary economic
history).
Words of presentation:
David
Landes
...a true story has to make
sense, to be plausible and persuasive. Cleverness is less useful than sense and
sensibility. The inability to see this, to avoid showing off, has been the death
of more than one pyrotechnic schema. This book is testemony to knowledge and
good sense. Such virtues are rare and that much more valuable.
Richard Nelson
Tha authors intend this
"reasoned history" as a theory of economic growth, and certainly their
description and analysis sheds light on phenomena of central importance to the
economic growth we have experienced that more standard economic growth does not
even see. Readers of this book have a fascinating adventure
in store for them.
Eric
Hobsbawm
This
major contribution to economic history is the most impressive and convincing
attempt I know to apply the concept of "long waves", a basic rhythm of
historical development in the era of capitalism, to the entire stretch from
eighteenth-century Lancashire to twenty-first-century Sillicon Valley. It is
also a call for economic history to escape from the handcuffs of narrow
retorspective econometrics to the freedom of its vocation: understanding and
explaining secular historical transformation.
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