Accelerating economic growth : lessons from 200,000 years of technological progress and human development / Jakub Growiec.

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Accelerating economic growth : lessons from 200,000 years of technological progress and human development / Jakub Growiec.

9783031071959 (electronic bk.)
3031071956 (electronic bk.)
3031071948
9783031071942

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2022]

English

1 online resource.

10.1007/978-3-031-07195-9 doi

HD78

338.9009

What made it possible for the human species to conquer the world, build a global digital economy, and still want more? What drives technological progress and economic growth in the long run and on a global scale? And how will technological progress, economic growth, and the overall prosperity of human civilization unfold in the future? This book sheds new light on these big questions by incorporating findings from physics, anthropology, psychology, history, philosophy, and computer science in a brand-new theory of economic growth. Looking back across the millennia, it identifies five major technological revolutions which have transformed humankinds capacity to process energy and informationthe cognitive, agricultural, scientific, industrial, and digital revolutionsand characterizes the new avenues of economic development which they have opened while also exponentially accelerating growth.

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Frontiers in economic history.

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