Structural Analysis and the Process of Economic Development by Ljungberg New..

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Structural Analysis and the Process of Economic DevelopmentAuthor(s): Jonas Ljungberg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367668402, 978-0367668402\nSynopsis\nEconomic development is full of discontinuities. Mainstream economists perceive these as external disturbances to a natural state of equilibrium, but this book argues that much of the discontinuities are part of economic development, suggesting that patterns can be understood with structural analysis.\n\nStructural Analysis and the Process of Economic Development presents a detailed analysis of the trajectory of Swedish economic change since the nineteenth century. The emergence of structural analysis in economic research is reviewed, as well as a chapter devoted to development blocks, a key concept that was outlined in the 1940s and that has much in common with the more recent notions techno-economic paradigms and general-purpose technologies. Structural ana.