{"product_id":"explaining-technology-roger-koppl-9781009386258","title":"Explaining Technology","description":"A long tradition explains technological change as recombination. Within this tradition, this Element develops an innovative combinatorial model of technological change and tests it with 2,000 years of global GDP data and with data from US patents filed between 1835 and 2010. The model explains 1) the pace of technological change for a least the past two millennia, 2) patent citations and 3) the increasing complexity of tools over time. It shows that combining and modifying pre-existing goods to produce new goods generates the observed historical pattern of technological change. A long period of stasis was followed by sudden super-exponential growth in the number of goods. In this model, the sudden explosion of about 250 years ago is a combinatorial explosion that was a long time in coming, but inevitable once the process began at least two thousand years ago. This Element models the Industrial Revolution as a combinatorial explosion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Roger Koppl, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Abigail Devereaux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1009386255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781009386258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.18d","brand":"Roger Koppl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44228074635519,"sku":"9781009386258","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b051447-6d60-4f74-b3f9-69714fabc4ac.jpg?v=1692811809","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/explaining-technology-roger-koppl-9781009386258","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}