This volume contains a collection of papers all concerned with the exploration of economic and social dynamics in relation to the innovation process and its outcomes. This theme is firmly rooted in the Schumpeterian tradition in which an economic perspective is mutually embedded in a wider...

From the founding days to date, the EU constitution does not explicitly empower the Union to formulate policy in the field of direct taxes; this area has been broadly left to the Member States. To date, limited EU-level intervention witnessed in direct taxes can, in part, be attributed to this...

Most economic models struggle to incorporate biophysical relationships between materials, energy and emissions, in order to appropriately deal with biophysical constraints of supply (and possibly also demand). After the incorporation of biophysical constraints, some functions produced surprising...