Technological retrogression : a Schumpeterian interpretation of modernization in reverse /

Technological retrogression : a Schumpeterian interpretation of modernization in reverse /

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The aim of this book is to broaden our understanding of technological change by adopting the concept of technological retrogression. With reference to concrete cases of technological retrogression a new conceptual framework is developed. The book's exposition aims at contrasting retrogressive e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Endresen, Sylvi B. (Author)
Other Authors: Reinert, Erik S., 1949- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Anthem Press, [2021]
Series:Anthem other canon economics.
Subjects:
Schumpeter, Joseph A., > 1883-1950.
Technological innovations > Economic aspects.
Sustainable development.
Recessions.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Chapter Int-null
  • Introduction: The concept of technological retrogression
  • Point of departure
  • Conceptual clarifications
  • Diffusion of technology
  • The chapters
  • Chapter 1. Challenging linearity and irreversibility
  • Grand narratives of progress
  • Constructing a testable theory of reversal of modernization
  • Necessity, choice and profit opportunity
  • Empirical evidence of technological retrogression
  • Challenging Schumpeterian thought
  • Chapter 2. perspectives on technological heterogeneity
  • Understanding time-space edges
  • One backward and one progressive sector
  • The destruction of antiquated modes of production
  • The transition to capitalism in the colonial context
  • Escaping dualism
  • Peripheral capitalism
  • Reproduction of labour in the pre-capitalist sector
  • Technological backwardness and marginalization
  • Explaining technological retrogression
  • Diminishing returns
  • Gaining more by producing less
  • Applying the three approaches to heterogeneity
  • A preoccupation with dualism
  • Expanded relations
  • An articulationist's approach
  • An appraisal of the approaches
  • Chapter 3. Production systems and work histories
  • The production system approach
  • The concept of production system
  • Separate economic spheres
  • Interconnected relations
  • The direction of change
  • An ideal type approach
  • General features of the production systems
  • Resource exploitation
  • Technology
  • Capital
  • Market expansion
  • Labour recruitment
  • Share systems
  • Security nets
  • The classification problem
  • Reconstruction of technological pasts using work histories
  • Career paths
  • Forms of technology over time
  • Limitations of the work history method
  • Chapter 4. empirical evidence of technological retrogression: the sri lankan case
  • Modernization efforts
  • New technology
  • The fisheries of Hambantota
  • Forms of technology
  • Forms of technology and age
  • Reconstruction of technological change
  • Changes within artisanal fisheries
  • The transition
  • Combination
  • Summing up the reconstruction
  • Standard of living
  • Ownership and standard of living
  • Forms of technology and standard of living
  • Technological pasts and standard of living
  • Summary
  • Chapter 5. Empirical evidence of technological retrogression: the malaysian case
  • Poverty and inequality
  • The fisheries
  • Forms of technology in Kuala Kedah
  • The village
  • Discovering hidden variation
  • Forms of technology
  • Technological change in Kuala Kedah
  • Changes within artisanal fisheries
  • The transition

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