Explaining Technical Change

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Explaining Technical Change is a scholarly work by Jon Elster that analyzes how and why technological innovations emerge and spread, using tools from rational choice theory and social science.

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instanceOf book
scholarly work
aimsTo explain how technological innovations arise
explain why technological innovations spread
integrate rational choice and empirical studies of technology
author Jon Elster NERFINISHED
contribution analysis of mechanisms behind innovation diffusion
application of rational choice theory to technological change
countryOfOrigin Norway
fieldOfWork rational choice theory
social science
focusesOn emergence of new technologies
incentives for innovation
institutional constraints on innovation
social mechanisms of diffusion
spread of new technologies
genre academic non-fiction
hasAcademicDiscipline economics
science and technology studies
sociology
hasPart case studies of technological change
theoretical analysis of innovation
influencedBy economic theory of innovation
game theory
sociology of science and technology
languageOfWork English
mainTopic diffusion of innovation
technological change
technological innovation
theoreticalFramework methodological individualism
microfoundations of social explanation
rational choice theory
usesMethod comparative analysis
rational choice modeling

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