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Ayres, Technology and Technical Objects

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Although the work of Clarence Ayres is held in high regard within the tradition of American Institutionalism, it has made little impact upon the study of technology more generally. Moreover, even within the Institutionalist tradition, his work is seen to embody a tension - on the one hand his dichotomy between technology and institutions is too strict, but to the extent that it is "softened," his main contributions are undermined. This paper argues that Ayres' work does have something to contribute to current technology debates, but that this contribution cannot be made if his conception is "softened" in the way that recent contributions suggest.

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  • Clive Lawson, 2009. "Ayres, Technology and Technical Objects," Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(3), pages 641-660.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:jeciss:v:43:y:2009:i:3:p:641-660
    DOI: 10.2753/JEI0021-3624430304
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    1. Philip Faulkner & Clive Lawson & Jochen Runde, 2010. "Theorising technology," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Cambridge Political Economy Society, vol. 34(1), pages 1-16, January.
    2. Almeida, Felipe & Cavalieri, Marco, 2020. "Understanding Clarence Ayres’s criticism to an emerging mainstream and birthing institutionalism through the 1930s Ayres-Knight debate," OSF Preprints 95jek, Center for Open Science.
    3. Henning Schwardt, 2022. "Technology and social rules and norms in neo-Schumpeterian economics and in original institutional economics," PSL Quarterly Review, Economia civile, vol. 75(303), pages 385-401.

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