Joel Mokyr, “Technological inertia in economic history”
Technological progress needs a “conducive social environment.”
But there is also social resistance to progress.
Adam Smith – the economy is not created by human beings but is a self-organising system. Self-organising systems resist change.
Theoretical framework for Mokyr:
Public choice;
Political economy
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Evolutionary theory
Systems analysis
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