New Public or Technological Change and Economic Performance

New Public: Professional Communication and the Means of Social Influence

Author: Leon H Mayhew

Professional specialists have come to dominate public communication, and the modern public of the Enlightenment has been replaced by a "New Public", subject to mass persuasion through systematic advertising, lobbying, and other forms of media manipulation. Leon Mayhew examines this sociological development in terms of discourse and social influence, offering an original theory that bridges Talcott Parsons and JÜrgen Habermas. He concludes that the present social order is unstable because good-faith, two-way discourse has been undermined.

Interesting book: Homes and Libraries of the Presidents Third Edition or Chosen Soldier

Technological Change and Economic Performance, Vol. 17

Author: Albert N Link

One doesn't have to listen to business or political leaders for long before it becomes obvious how important productivity growth is to any economy. A leading factor that spurs productivity growth is technological change or progress.
This useful new book reviews the literature on technology and economic growth covering historical and theoretical developments such as: new models for measuring productivity; sources of technological knowledge and technological spillovers, and stock market reactions to investment in technology
Such a comprehensive survey is likely to be welcomed by students and academics involved in business economics, strategy and technology, as well as being extremely useful for public sector employees concerned with science and technology policy and planning and private sector employees in research and development.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
2	Some preliminary concepts	5
3	Early theoretical and empirical studies of economic growth	13
4	The production function concept of technological change	20
5	Alternative frameworks for measuring technical progress and productivity	34
6	Trends in productivity growth	42
7	The productivity slowdown	49
8	Sources of technical knowledge	60
9	The technology-productivity growth relationship	70
10	Effects of information technology on workers and economic performance	79
11	Research partnerships and economic performance	98
12	Concluding statement	120
App. A	Definition of symbols	121
App. B	Stochastic frontier estimation	124
	Bibliography	126
	Index	149