Electronics, Economic Growth and Employment – Revolution or Evolution

Gunnar Eliasson
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Gunnar Eliasson: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

No 66, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: The "new electronics technology" in its various manifestations has been very much in the limelight during recent years. It has been associated with future mass unemployment or scary visions of a Brave New World, a grand discontinuity in economic and cultural development. Governments are worried about the effects of the same technology on the international competitiveness of their industries and public investigative committees abound among the western industrialized countries. Some economists regard microelectronics as the new technology that will generate the next Kontradieff cycle. The vast attention paid to this technological phenomenon in itself warrants a serious inquiry into its potential macroeconomic implications even though much of the speculation around it may seem farfetched to the majority of professional economists.

Keywords: Microelectronics; R&D; Technological change; Employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 L63 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 1982-05
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