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Technological Revolutions and the Periphery

Understanding Global Development Through Regional Lenses

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Authors:
  1. Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque

    1. Economics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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  • Evaluates the uneven propagation of technological revolutions
  • Discusses the impact of technological revolution from the perspective of countries at the periphery
  • Uses absorptive capacity as a tool for understanding heterogeneity at the periphery

Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)

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This book evaluates the uneven propagation of technological revolutions, investigating the roots of this phenomenon in the absorptive capabilities that are built by countries and regions at the periphery. To understand this global process, this book looks to two dimensions: time and geography. Temporally, the book follows the sequence of technological revolutions in the last 250 years. With regard to geography, the book studies five different regions at the periphery—China, India, Africa, Russia and Latin America—to understand how they differ in the institutional processes that shape their absorptive capabilities. Focusing on each technological revolution and its impact on those five peripheric regions, the chapters illustrate how each region coped with each shock wave emanating from the center. Providing a truly global outlook of a complex system with a dynamic nature, this book will be of interest to researchers and students of development economics, the economics of innovation, evolutionary economics, and the economics of science and technology.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: The Peculiarities of the Propagation of Technological Revolutions Through the Periphery

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    Pages 1-8

  3. Theoretical Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. The Roots of System Expansion and the Role of Absorptive Capacity

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      Pages 11-39

  4. Technological Revolutions and Their Impacts on the Periphery

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41
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    2. The Initial Impacts of the Industrial Revolution: An “Astonishing Reversal” – 1771–1850

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      Pages 43-74

    3. Railways and the Consolidation of an International Division of Labor: Hinterlands Join the Global Economy – 1829–1920

      • Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque
      Pages 75-100

    4. Electrifying an Existing International Division of Labor: The Emergence of Multinational Firms in a Science-Based Technology – 1882–1937

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      Pages 101-130

    5. Automobiles, Oil, Petrochemicals, and Roads – The Inclusion of New Regions After a New Core Input – 1908–1971

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      Pages 131-158

    6. The Microprocessor and the World Wide Web – Two Technological Revolutions and a Second Reversal? – 1971, 1991

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      Pages 159-189

  5. Revisiting the Theoretical Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
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    2. The Interplay Between Expansionary and Assimilatory Forces

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      Pages 193-214

    3. Conclusion: An Agenda for Global Reform

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      Pages 215-219
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Economics, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque

About the author

Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque is Full Professor at the Department of Economics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). He received his PhD in economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in economics of science and technology, contemporary political economy, and evolutionary microeconomics. His research focuses on integrating evolutionary economics with the economics of development.   

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Technological Revolutions and the Periphery

  • Book Subtitle: Understanding Global Development Through Regional Lenses

  • Authors: Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque

  • Series Title: Contributions to Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43436-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-43435-8Published: 14 October 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-43438-9Due: 14 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-43436-5Published: 13 October 2023

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1933

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 219

  • Topics: Economics, general, Economic Growth, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics

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