studying institutions and technological innovation and examining how human capital and institutional constraints affect the …

keeping the peace between users of old and new technologies are allowed to call the shots, innovation and the modern world is …

,” for example, came from American gold, not from population increases, and did not inspire innovation. Commercialization … was the positive sum arising from innovation. …

successes of innovation rise up to kill the innovation. We should resist it. …

innovation after 1848; and volume 6 asks which of the present-day complaints about free-market economies has merit. Since the … that innovation has destroyed the environment. Both left and right are suspicious of the modern world, often for the same … reasons. “The Bourgeois Era” argues that both are mistaken: that innovation has elevated people, in more than goods alone. …

the links between innovation and institutions. Using cross-country data and the instrumental variable method, this study … boost an economy’s rate of innovation. Most of the previous literature on institutional and economic performance finds a … of institutions on innovation spillover to the growth rate of GDP per capita, this paper shows evidence of a growth …

in physical or human capital. Innovation 1700-2010 pushed the marginal product of all capitals steadily out, and the …

apartheid, been profitable. The episode of economic success in Europe came from domestic sources of innovation, not from …