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Invention and Economic Growth / Jacob Schmookler.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1966Edition: 2nd printing 1976. Reprint 2014Description: 1 online resource (332 p.) : 27 charts, 49 tablesContent type:
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  • 9780674432826
  • 9780674432833
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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 -- Appendix D. important mechanical inventions in agriculture -- Appendix E: Important inventions in the petroleum industry -- Appendix F: Important inventions in the paper industry -- Index
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674432833

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 -- Appendix D. important mechanical inventions in agriculture -- Appendix E: Important inventions in the petroleum industry -- Appendix F: Important inventions in the paper industry -- Index

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In English.

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