Biased Technical Change and Economic Conservation Laws (Research Monographs in Japan-U.S. Business and Economics, 9, Band 9) - Hardcover

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Ryuzo Sato is the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics and the director of the Center for Japan-U.S. Business and Economic Studies at the New York University Stern School of Business. In his current position, Dr. Sato teaches an MBA course in the comparative analysis of the Japanese and United States economies, an Undergraduate course ISP (International Studies Project,) and a Ph.D. level course on economic growth and technological change.

Dr. Sato has been with NYU Stern for more than 15 years. His primary areas of research interest are: economic growth, technical change, differential games, international business and United States-Japan relations.

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The principal aim of BIASED TECHNICAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC CONSERVATION LAWS is twofold: to reveal the new economic significance of the old concept of biased technical change and the current application of the new concept of economic conservation laws.

Although terms such as "labor saving" and "capital saving" fall under the category of biased technical change, the first of these topics, no model exists in which biased technical change gives rise endogenously to technical progress. A special feature of this book is its thorough investigation and analysis of these issues, which go far beyond existing studies in this area.

The concept of economic conservation laws dates back to Ramsey’s classic study of 1928. This book primarily makes use of Lie groups to shed new light on the analysis of economic conservation laws. Economic conservation laws are not simply abstract concepts; this book shows that they are tools of empirical analysis that can be applied to such topics as analyses of macro performance and corporate efficiency.