Stalemate in Technology
Author : Gerhard Mensch
Publisher :
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Gerhard Mensch
Publisher :
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Gerhard Mensch
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 1983-04-01
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ISBN : 9780884100546
Author : Gerhard Mensch
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 14,70 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Gerhard Mensch
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Peter Nijkamp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642465781
Author : Harvey Brooks
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 1987-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0309037360
Author : John N. Vardalas
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2001-07-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262264986
The forces that shaped Canada's digital innovations in the postwar period. After World War II, other major industrialized nations responded to the technological and industrial hegemony of the United States by developing their own design and manufacturing competence in digital electronic technology. In this book John Vardalas describes the quest for such competence in Canada, exploring the significant contributions of the civilian sector but emphasizing the role of the Canadian military in shaping radical technological change. As he shows, Canada's determination to be an active participant in research and development work on advanced weapons systems, and in the testing of those weapons systems, was a cornerstone of Canadian technological development during the years 1945-1980. Vardalas presents case studies of such firms as Ferranti-Canada, Sperry Gyroscope of Canada, and Control Data of Canada. In contrast to the standard nationalist interpretation of Canadian subsidiaries of transnational corporations as passive agents, he shows them to have been remarkably innovative and explains how their aggressive programs to develop all-Canadian digital R&D and manufacturing capacities influenced technological development in the United States and in Great Britain. While underlining the unprecedented role of the military in the creation of peacetime scientific and technical skills, Vardalas also examines the role of government and university research programs, including Canada's first computerized systems for mail sorting and airline reservations. Overall, he presents a nuanced account of how national economic, political, and corporate forces influenced the content, extent, and direction of digital innovation in Canada.
Author : Tomasz Janowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 2010-02-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3642116582
LNCS 5966
Author : Robert K. Schaeffer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 100043303X
In the 1980s, U.S. officials adopted tax and monetary policies that channeled huge new resources into Wall Street, which fueled a stock market boom. To increase profits and payouts to investors as stock prices soared, corporate managers consolidated businesses, outsourced manufacturing to low-wage countries, and adopted new technologies to increase productivity. Government officials then facilitated mergers and negotiated free trade agreements to speed the process of globalization. Wall Street became an engine of capital accumulation and a force for global change. These developments resulted in massive job losses and stagnant wages for most Americans. Meanwhile, tax cuts and the stock market boom created vast new wealth for the rich, and the top 10 percent seized 50 percent of all income in the United States. The result was growing economic inequality. During the decades that followed, globalization triggered regional economic crises, toppled governments, transformed societies, galvanized economic development in China, and created new forms of wealth and inequality around the world. Then in 2008, a financial crisis rooted in Wall Street triggered the Great Recession, wrecked the legitimacy of globalization as a development strategy, and unleashed populist or "restrictionist" social movements and political parties that challenged globalization and attacked its economic and political foundations. This book examines the origins of globalization in the 1980s, the developments that triggered the Great Recession, and the political and economic forces that contributed to the disintegration of globalization as a force for change in the modern world. After Globalization explains what happened—and what comes next.
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Page : 968 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Management information systems
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