Suchergebnisse

1. Introduction -- 2. Technical progress, capital accumulation and income distribution in classical economics : Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Karl Marx -- 3. Joseph A. Schumpeter : an economist between Marx and Walras -- 4. Innovations and profits : Schumpeter and the classical heritage -- 5. On the growth of knowledge about the role of knowledge in economic growth : a critical assessment of recent literature on growth theory -- 6. Who is going to kiss Sleeping Beauty? : On the "classical" analytical origins and perspectives of input-output analysis -- 7. Whither the history of economic thought? : Going nowhere rather slowly?

This book deals with the prime movers of socio-economic development, innovations and technical change, their origins, forms and effects. It contains a set of closely related chapters, some of which have been previously published as papers in scholarly journals.