Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Growth Mechanism of the Free-Enterprise Economies / / ed. by Eytan Sheshinski, William J. Baumol, Robert J. Strom.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Arrow, Kenneth J.,; Baumol, William J.,; Blinder, Alan S.,; Eaton, Jonathan,; Gomory, Ralph E.,; Jovanovic, Boyan,; Kortum, Samuel S.,; Lamoreaux, Naomi R.,; Lowrey, Ying,; Nasar, Sylvia,; North, Douglass C.,; Phelps, Edmund S.,; Rosenberg, Nathan,; Schilling, Melissa A.,; Shachmurove, Yochanan,; Sheshinski, Eytan,; Shiller, Robert J.,; Sokoloff, Kenneth L.,; Solow, Robert M.,; Somaya, Deepak,; Strom, J.,; Strom, Robert J.,; Teece, David J.,; Weingast, Barry R.,; Weinstein, Michael M.,; Wolff, Edward N.,
• HerausgeberIn: Baumol, William J.,; Sheshinski, Eytan,; Strom, Robert J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 35 line illus. 19 tables.

How much credit can be given to entrepreneurship for the unprecedented innovation and growth of free-enterprise economies? In this book, some of the world's leading economists tackle this difficult and understudied question, and their responses shed new light on how free-market economies work--...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I INTRODUCTORY: THE MICROECONOMICS AND MACROECONOMICS OF GROWTH
• Chapter 1 On Macroeconomic Models of Free-Market Innovation and Growth
• Chapter 2 The Macro-context of the Microeconomics of Innovation
• Part II INSTITUTIONAL BASES FOR CAPITALIST GROWTH
• Introduction and Comments
• Chapter 3 Institutional Bases for Capitalist Growth
• Chapter 4 Capitalism and Economic Liberty: The Political Foundations of Economic Growth
• Part III INNOVATION IN MODERN CORPORATIONS
• Introduction and Comments
• Chapter 5 Endogenous Forces in Twentieth-Century America
• Chapter 6 Interfirm Collaboration Networks: The Impact of Network Structure on Rates of Innovation
• Part IV THE CONTINUING ROLE OF INDEPENDENT INNOVATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS
• Introduction and Comments
• Chapter 7 The Small Entrepreneur
• Chapter 8 Toward Analysis of Capitalism’s Unparalleled Growth: Sources and Mechanism
• Part V DISSEMINATION OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE PATENT SYSTEM
• Introduction and Comments
• Chapter 9 Patents, Licensing, and Entrepreneurship: Effectuating Innovation in Multi-invention Contexts
• Chapter 10 The Market for Technology and the Organization of Invention in U.S. History
• Part VI INNOVATION AND TRADE
• Introduction and Comments
• Chapter 11 Innovation and Its Effects on International Trade
• Chapter 12 Innovation, Diffusion, and Trade
• Part VII FINANCE AND INNOVATION IN THE FREE-MARKET ECONOMY
• Introduction and Comments
• Chapter 13 Radical Financial Innovation
• Chapter 14 Finance and Innovation
• Part VIII TOWARD SOME LESSONS
• Introduction and Comments
• Chapter 15 The Economic Performance of Nations: Prosperity Depends on Dynamism, Dynamism on Institutions
• Chapter 16 Pharmaceutical Patenting in Developing Countries and R&D
• Contributors
• Index