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Openness to creative destruction : sustaining innovative dynamism / Arthur M. Diamond, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diamond, Arthur M., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Entrepreneurship.
- Creative ability in business.
- Technological innovations--Economic aspects.
- Technological innovations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- 'Openness to Creative Destruction' shows how life improves under the economic system often called 'entrepreneurial capitalism' or 'creative destruction,' but more accurately called 'innovative dynamism.' The book describes how, in such a system, innovation occurs through the efforts of inventors and innovative entrepreneurs, how workers on balance benefit and how good policies can encourage innovation.
- Contents:
- An economy of innovative dynamism
- The innovative entrepreneur
- The great fact and the good life
- The benefits: new goods
- The benefits': process innovations
- Easing the pains of labor
- The benefits : labor gains
- The benefits : morality, equality, mobility, culture, and the environment
- Innovation bound or unbound by culture and institutions
- Funding inventors
- Funding entrepreneurs
- Unbinding regulations
- Hope for a better future
- Reader's guide on innovative dynamism
- Reader's guide on inventors and entrepreneurs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-026369-5
- 0-19-026370-9
- 0-19-026368-7
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