Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A Theory of Innovation, Flourishing, and Growth/ Edmund Phelps -- Overview of the Chapters/ Raicho Bojilov, Gylfi Zoega, and Hian Teck Hoon -- I. ESTIMATING INNOVATION-ACROSS TIME AND ACROSS NATIONS -- 1....

"In Dynamism Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps, Raicho Bojilov, Hian Teck Hoon, and Gylfi Zoega argue that the high level of innovation in the West was not a result of scientific discoveries plus entrepreneurship. Rather, modern values-particularly the individualism and self-expression prevailing...