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Bridging the short-term and long-term dynamics of economic structural change
James McNerney, Yang Li, Andres Gomez-Lievano +1
Economic transformation -- change in what an economy produces -- is foundational to development and rising standards of living. Our understanding of this process has been propelled…
Metals Production Requirements for Rapid Photovoltaics Deployment
Goksin Kavlak, James McNerney, Robert L. Jaffe +1
If global photovoltaics (PV) deployment grows rapidly, the required input materials need to be supplied at an increasing rate. In this paper, we quantify the effect of PV deploymen…
Network structure of inter-industry flows
James McNerney, Brian D. Fath, Gerald Silverberg
We study the structure of inter-industry relationships using networks of money flows between industries in 20 national economies. We find these networks vary around a typical struc…
Historical Costs of Coal-Fired Electricity and Implications for the Future
James McNerney, J. Doyne Farmer, Jessika E. Trancik
We study the costs of coal-fired electricity in the United States between 1882 and 2006 by decomposing it in terms of the price of coal, transportation costs, energy density, therm…
The Role of Design Complexity in Technology Improvement
James McNerney, J. Doyne Farmer, Sid Redner +1
We study a simple model for the evolution of the cost (or more generally the performance) of a technology or production process. The technology can be decomposed into component…