In exploring the microfoundations of economic growth, the contributors to Microfoundations of Economic Growth focus on three subjects that were of profound interest to the great Austrian and Harvard economist, Joseph A. Schumpeter: innovation, technological change, and economic growth. Here economic growth is approached from the vantage point of individual firms and industries. Most analysis of innovation takes place at the firm or industry level, while discussion of economic growth takes place at an economy-wide level. The first part of the volume examines institutions, markets, and...
In exploring the microfoundations of economic growth, the contributors to Microfoundations of Economic Growth focus on three subjects that were of pro...
This book examines historic role of professional and demanding military customers in industrial development. Particular emphasis is paid to public procurement of military equipment as a catalyst for innovation, and the civilian commercialization of military technologies - from gunpowder and cannons to submarines, missiles and aircraft - is documented by many case illustrations that show how macro-level productivity advance has been generated. A complementary volume to Advancing Public Procurement as Industrial Policy (2010), which focused on the spillover effects of the Swedish...
This book examines historic role of professional and demanding military customers in industrial development. Particular emphasis is paid to public ...