Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Chapter I. Introduction -- 1.1 Objectives -- 1.2 Updating -- 1.3 Forecasting Using Input-Output Analysis -- 1.4 Intertemporal Change of the Coefficients -- 1. 5 Study Plan -- Chapter II. The Steel Industry -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Iron and Steel Technologies -- 2.3 The Development of the Steel Making Technologies -- 2.4 Comparison of the Rate of Diffusion of the B.0.F. in the U.S. and Japanese Steel Industries -- Chapter III. The Aluminum Industry -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Development of the Technology -- 3.3 The Structure of Industry -- 3.4 Development of the Market for Aluminum -- 3.5 The Future of the Aluminum Industry -- Chapter IV. The can Manufacturing Industry -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Can Making Technology -- 4.3 Development of the Can Making Technologies -- 4.4 The Structure of the Industry -- Chapter V.A Recursive Programming Model of Investment and Technological Change in an Input-Output Framework -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Recursive Progrannning Model -- 5.3 Application of the Model -- Chapter VI. Results and Evaluation -- 6.1 General Discussion -- 6.2 Steel Sector -- 6.2.1 Dynamic Phase -- 6.2.2 Static Phase -- 6.3 Aluminum Sector -- 6.4 Can Manufacturing Sector -- 6.4.1 Dynamic Phase -- 6.4.2 Static Phase -- 6.5 Estimating the Technical Coefficients -- Chapter VII. Conclusions and Extensions -- 7.1 Summary -- 7.2 Conclusions -- 7.3 Extensions -- Appendix A. Steel Industry Data -- Appendix B. Aluminum Industry Data -- Appendix C. Can Manufacturing Data -- Appendix D. Model Results -- Appendix E. Input-Output Tables -- Bibliography