Entrepreneurship, innovation, and the growth mechanism of the free-enterprise economies /

How much credit can be given to entrepreneurship for the unprecedented innovation and growth of free-enterprise economies? In this book, some of the world's leading economists tackle this difficult and understudied question, and their responses shed new light on how free-market economies work--...

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Other Authors: Sheshinski, Eytan, Strom, Robert J., 1946-, Baumol, William J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • On macroeconomic models of free-market innovation and growth / Robert M. Solow
  • The macro-context of the microeconomics of innovation / Kenneth J. Arrow
  • Institutional bases for capitalist growth / Douglass C. North
  • Capitalism and economic liberty : the political foundations of economic growth / Barry R. Weingast
  • Endogenous forces in twentieth-century America / Nathan Rosenberg
  • Interfirm collaboration networks : the impact of network structure on rates of innovation / Melissa A. Schilling and Corey Phelps
  • The small entrepreneur / Boyan Jovanovic and Peter L. Rousseau
  • Toward analysis of capitalism's unparalleled growth : sources and mechanism / William J. Baumol
  • Patents, licensing, and entrepreneurship : effectuating innovation in multi-invention contexts / Deepak Somaya and David J. Teece
  • The market for technology and the organization of invention in U.S. history / Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Kenmeth L. Sokoloff
  • Innovation and its effects on international trade / Ralph E. Gomory and William J. Baumol
  • Innovation, diffusion, and trade / Jonathan Eaton and Samuel S. Kortum
  • Radical financial innovation / Robert J. Shiller
  • Finance and innovation / Burton G. Malkiel
  • The economic performance of nations : prosperity depends on dynamism, dynamism on institutions / Edmund S. Phelps
  • Pharmaceutical patenting in developing countries and R&D / Eytan Sheshinski.