This dissertation uses theoretical as well as empirical tools to study determinants of cross-country differences in income growth, focussing on the role of consumer inequality, values, and the diffusion process of technologies. Chapter 1 investigates how household income inequality shapes the...

Against the pressing challenge of climate change, solar photovoltaic technology is widely considered as a clean and renewable alternative to fossil fuels. Landscaping the development of solar technology worldwide, the case of China is prominent, as it experienced a successful catching-up and a...

This thesis deals with the problem of technical change, its forms, causes and effects. It treats certain aspects of this large subject from a perspective that may be labelled as "Classical-Schumpeterian". The aim is to push the evolutionary theory of differential growth a bit further and to...

This thesis employs an international comparative perspective to empirically analyse the Czech energy transition between 1830 and 2010. It addresses the utilization of energy in shaping modern economic growth through structural and technological change and the implications of those changes on...