Richard Lipsey's definition of technology is quite acceptable.    
And I think I will read the book to which he refers.  However, I will   
quibble with the last line, with the term "long run growth".  Surely he   
means "very long run growth".  I am insisting on Marshall's distinction.    
"Standard economics" deals with the "market period", the "short run"   
and the 'long run", defined as states in which technology and   
institutions are "fixed".  Once these change, we are into economic   
history, not economics.  
  
Robin Neill