Military and defense-related procurement has been an important source of technology development across a broad spectrum of industries that account for an important share of United States industrial production. In this book, the author focuses on six general-purpose technologies: interchangeable...

Part I: Introduction and Background -- Introduction -- Autonomous-Vehicle Operations and the Process of Adoption -- Part 2: Potential Effects of Autonomous Vehicles -- The Potential Effects of Autonomous Vehicles on Economic Sectors -- Estimating the Effects of Congestion on Economic-Performance...

This paper studies the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT), especially mobile phone rollout, on economic growth in a sample of African countries from 1988 to 2007. Further, we investigate whether financial inclusion is one of the channels through which mobile phone...