Science, Technology and Innovation in the History of Economic Thought

AvEstrella Trincado Aznar,Fernando López Castellano

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

This book provides an overview of the importance of science, technology, and innovation in the history of economic thought.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-19
Mått:148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt:508 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought
Antal sidor:287
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031401381

Utforska kategorier

Nationalekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Energiindustri inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Estrella Trincado Aznar is Professor of History of Economic Thought at the Complutense University of Madrid. Fernando López Castellano is Professor of Economics at the University of Granada.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Invention, institutional change and economic development: from Scottish Enlightenment to the IPE.- 2. Friedrich List, contemporaries and followers: national innovation policies revisited.- 3. Transhumanism as alienation in Marx's humanist approach.- 4. Energy efficiency, productivity and the Jevons paradox.- 5. Max Weber: Science, Technology and Knowledge.- 6. Schumpeter and Austrian economics on innovation.- 7. The Neoclassical approach, its crisis and the Schumpeterian echo in the current paradigm of the economic analysis of Technological Change.- 8. Some misconceptions regarding innovation (and how reading the classics might help to overcome them).- 9. Sustainability and technological progress.- 10. Technological unemployment as a historical debate.- 11. On the controversies on capital as a selection between paradigms.- 12. Influence of Schumpeter in the national context.- 13. Institutional problems for innovation although inventions are available.- 14. Conclusion and future research.