This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a … with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity …, favorable demographic characteristics, natural resource abundance, institutional adaptability and innovation, and growth …

the past two centuries in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Grossman focuses on four major …

technologies to growth based on increased efficiency and innovation--then became the problem. Thus, the key questions for the …

different approaches to innovation, and that each is associated with a distinct pattern of discovery over a lifetime …

innovation may depend less on lone thinkers with enormous IQs than on diverse people working together and capitalizing on their …

How much credit can be given to entrepreneurship for the unprecedented innovation and growth of free … as their starting point William J. Baumol's 2002 book <i>The Free-Market Innovation Machine</i> (Princeton), which argued …

incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of …

This book brings together a group of leading economic historians to examine how institutions, innovation, and …

grassroots dynamism that was necessary for widespread, indigenous innovation. Most innovation wasn't driven by a few isolated …-being and the "good life" in a broader sense--was created by this mass innovation. Yet indigenous innovation and flourishing … weakened decades ago. In America, evidence indicates that innovation and job satisfaction have decreased since the late 1960s …