Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Cooper, Charles
Author-Workplace-Name: United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies
Title: Technological Change and Dual Economies
Abstract: This paper has two main purposes. First, it examines the way technological change
	 has been treated in the analysis of labour surplus dual economies, concluding that
	 technological dynamism actually 'matters' in the labour surplus phase of
	 development. The discussion is based on Arthur Lewis's seminal paper and on the
	 open economy formulation of the Lewis model by Fei and Ranis. Second, it
	 explores how thinking about technological change in the context of a dual economy
	 might have to be adapted when present day circumstances are taken into account.
	 Thus, starting from the Schumpeterian ideas about interfirm competition, the paper
	 focuses on the implications of generic technological change, path dependence and
	 endogenous technological change.
Keywords: Technological change, economic development, labour surplus 
Series: Discussion Paper
Creation-Date: 1995
Number: 1995-10
File-URL: https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/discussion-papers/9510.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 278 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unuint:199510