Diversity and Technological Progress

This paper proposes a tractable model to study the equilibrium diversity of technological progress and shows that equilibrium technological progress may exhibit too little diversity (too much conformity), in particular foregoing socially beneficial investments in “alternative” technologies that will...

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Main Author: Acemoglu, Daron
Format: Working Paper
Published: Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71556