Invention and Economic Growth / Jacob Schmookler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmookler, Jacob, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development.

Inventions.

Technology--Philosophy.

Local Subjects:

Economic development.

Inventions.

Technology--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Edition:

2nd printing 1976. Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Invention and Economic Growth".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

The setting of the problem

Patent statistics

The role of intellectual stimuli

The use of important inventions as a cause of further inventions

Productivity advance: A Case of supply and demand?

The amount of invention is governed by the extent of the market - the evidence of time series

The amount of invention is governed by the extent of the market - the evidence of cross sections

The sources of invention and the changing state of knowledge

The role of demand in consumer goods invention

On the "Inevitability" of individual inventions

Summary and Conclusions

Appendix A: Statistical Appendix

Appendix B: Inventors Past and Present

Appendix C: Important inventions in the Railroad Industry / Bruschke, Heinrich H. / Feller, Irwin

Appendix D. important mechanical inventions in agriculture / Olson, Allan L. / Feller, Irwin

Appendix E: Important inventions in the petroleum industry / Gidwani, Sushila J. / Feller, Irwin

Appendix F: Important inventions in the paper industry / Darzins, A. Luis / Feller, Irwin

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

0-674-43283-5

OCLC:

1024049761