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Nathan Rosenberg's work on this front is very good. See in particular: 
 
* "The historiography of technical progress" and "Marx as a student of  
technology" in _Inside the Black Box_ 
 
* The articles on Schumpeter and Babbage in _Exploring the Black Box_ 
 
* Various papers (including discussions of Marx and Smith on technology)  
reprinted in _The Emergence of Economic Ideas_ 
 
* His new book, _Schumpeter and the Endogeneity of Technology_ 
 
Bhaven N. Sampat 
Columbia University 
 
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