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Technical progress is a large subject, involving the whole history of the human race. We are here concerned only with changes of methods of production in a developed capitalist system, and our argument will apply to piecemeal innovations, not to great technical revolutions which transform a whole society and make comparisons between its present and its former state more or less meaningless.
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© 1979 Joan Robinson
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Robinson, J. (1979). Notes on the Economics of Technical Progress. In: The Generalisation of the General Theory and other Essays. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16188-1_2
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