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...

This volume presents the interrelationships and possible connecting threads between two recent attempts within economic theory to step out of the mainstream of conventional neoclassical wisdom: evolutionary and neo-Schumpeterian theory. Neo-Schumpeterian and evolutionary approaches to economics...

1. Introduction -- 2. Technical progress, capital accumulation and income distribution in classical economics : Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Karl Marx -- 3. Joseph A. Schumpeter : an economist between Marx and Walras -- 4. Innovations and profits : Schumpeter and the classical heritage -- 5. On...