The paper seeks to analyze the main idea expressed by Mokyr, according to which, technological creativity has a close connection with economic progress. The paper has been divided into several sections, each of which aims to delve into the analysis of Mokyr's thought. The introduction summarized this economist's thought through an attempt to explain why economic growth occurs. The scholar identified technological creativity as the main cause of economic progress. This is followed by a historical digression in which, through the identification of key periods, a synthesis is presented that analyzes mainly economic, technological and social factors, while maintaining the focus on Mokyr's fundamental idea. Once the excursus was completed, a section was included based on the analysis and comparison of the cases illustrated above in an attempt to determine the different causes that led to epochal technological and economic changes. It should be made explicit that Mokyr's analysis stops historically on the threshold of World War I and that this work has an almost exclusively Eurocentric focus. With the purpose of extending the previously described analysis, Silicon Valley was taken into consideration as a case-study: in this U.S. territory, in the federal state of California, a process took place that led to the development of an area that has become for decades now of global importance at the level of technological innovation and thus, still following Mokyr, of economic development.
L’elaborato cerca di analizzare l’idea principale espressa da Mokyr, secondo il quale, la creatività tecnologica ha un legame stretto con il progresso economico. Il lavoro è stato suddiviso in diverse sezioni, ognuna delle quali ha lo scopo di addentrarsi nell’analisi del pensiero di Mokyr. Nell’introduzione è stato sintetizzato il pensiero di questo economista attraverso un tentativo di spiegazione dei motivi per cui avviene una crescita economica. Lo studioso ha individuato nella creatività tecnologica la causa principale del progresso economico. Segue una digressione di carattere storico in cui, attraverso l’individuazione di periodi chiave, viene presentata una sintesi che analizza soprattutto fattori economici, tecnologici e sociali, mantenendo il focus sull’idea fondamentale di Mokyr. Una volta completato l’excursus è stata inserita una sezione basata sull’analisi e comparazione dei casi illustrati precedentemente nel tentativo di determinare le diverse cause che hanno portato a cambiamenti tecnologici ed economici epocali. È doveroso esplicitare che l’analisi di Mokyr si ferma storicamente sulla soglia del primo conflitto mondiale e che tale lavoro ha un focus quasi esclusivamente eurocentrico. Con il proposito di estendere l’analisi precedentemente descritta, la Silicon Valley è stata presa in considerazione come case-study: in questo territorio statunitense, nello stato federale della California, ha avuto luogo un processo che ha portato allo sviluppo di un’area diventata ormai da decenni d’importanza mondiale a livello di innovazione tecnologica e quindi, seguendo ancora Mokyr, di sviluppo economico.
Correlazione tra creatività tecnologica e progresso economico: concetti fondamentali e analisi del caso "Silicon Valley"
CERATO, ALBERTO
2022/2023
Abstract
The paper seeks to analyze the main idea expressed by Mokyr, according to which, technological creativity has a close connection with economic progress. The paper has been divided into several sections, each of which aims to delve into the analysis of Mokyr's thought. The introduction summarized this economist's thought through an attempt to explain why economic growth occurs. The scholar identified technological creativity as the main cause of economic progress. This is followed by a historical digression in which, through the identification of key periods, a synthesis is presented that analyzes mainly economic, technological and social factors, while maintaining the focus on Mokyr's fundamental idea. Once the excursus was completed, a section was included based on the analysis and comparison of the cases illustrated above in an attempt to determine the different causes that led to epochal technological and economic changes. It should be made explicit that Mokyr's analysis stops historically on the threshold of World War I and that this work has an almost exclusively Eurocentric focus. With the purpose of extending the previously described analysis, Silicon Valley was taken into consideration as a case-study: in this U.S. territory, in the federal state of California, a process took place that led to the development of an area that has become for decades now of global importance at the level of technological innovation and thus, still following Mokyr, of economic development.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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