Technological waves and economic growth: thoughts on the digital revolution

João Ferreira do Amaral

No 2022/0220, Working Papers REM from ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, REM, Universidade de Lisboa

Abstract: This paper develops concepts and theoretical models that can prove useful for the study of technological revolutions both from the point of view of economic growth theory and of economic history. The basic concepts are innovative capital, technological wave and technological revolution and a comparison is made with other concepts such as industrial revolution and social revolution in the Marxian sense.

Keywords: economic growth; digital revolution; technological progress; innovation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E10 E11 E22 N10 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-03
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