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What we need to do now

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 30/03/2020 Posted in Climate Change

Chris Goodall is an English economist and writer who previously has authored several books on climate change and energy transitions, including the highly readable “The Switch” a few years back. The present book is as the title indicates a primer …

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Modern Evolutionary Economics

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 14/01/2019 Posted in Economic Growth

The 1982 book “An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change” by Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter has become a true social science classic, and is the most cited work within the field of innovation studies. However, contrary to the authors’ own …

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The Politics of Innovation (by Mark Z. Taylor)

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 01/01/2017 Posted in Innovation Policy

During the last two-three decades innovation has become a more central issue on policy makers’ agendas, and the interest for innovation policy has increased a lot. The agendas of policy makers and researchers have also been broadened, from focusing mainly …

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Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 17/02/2015 Posted in Economic Growth

Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century “ has got a lot of attention, and  deserves praise for its detailed presentation of data on distribution of income and wealth over the longer run.  However, the title of the book, mimicking one …

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A Guide to Schumpeter

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 28/03/2008 Posted in Innovation

Josef Schumpeter was born in 1883 in the then Austrian empire and died in 1950 in the United States. He grew up in Vienna around the turn of the century and studied law and economics there. During the early part …

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William Baumol: ”The Free-Market Innovation Machine”

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 10/11/2003 Posted in Economic Growth

This book is, as the title indicates, devoted to an analysis of the growth miracle of capitalism. It is a blend of verbal discussion and formal analysis. Although the book also contains some material that is historical in character, considering …

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Freeman and Louçã: “As Time Goes By”

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 14/10/2002 Posted in Economic Growth

This is an unusual book, and a very important one, too. It addresses „big issues“ such as the (theoretical) sources of the evolutionary approach, and how this approach might be developed in understanding how the economy evolves through time. As …

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Technology and Industrial Progress by Nick von Tunzelmann

By Jan Fagerberg Posted on 01/01/1997 Posted in Economic Growth, Innovation

This is an impressive book.  Not only because of its length (more than five hundred pages), or the large number of books and articles cited in the text (between seven and eight hundred). What really makes this book exceptional is …

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