Invention and Economic Growth / / Jacob Schmookler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Schmookler, Jacob,
• MitwirkendeR: Bruschke, Heinrich H.,; Darzins, A. Luis,; Feller, Irwin,; Gidwani, Sushila J.,; Olson, Allan L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1966
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 2nd printing 1976. Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (332 p.) :; 27 charts, 49 tables
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674432833; 9783110353488; 9783110353556; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674432833
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jacob Schmookler.