If it's true that Wayne Booth inspired Deirdre McCloskey's interest in the study of rhetoric, then it's also true — happily, in my view — that McCloskey has refused to mimic Booth's programmatic, formulaic methods and boorish insistence on prosaic succinctness. Bourgeois Equality is...

The purpose of this article is to classify existing approaches to analyzing theoretical and methodological aspects of innovation development in modern economic systems. We also present a new approach based on existing ones that combines advantages, eliminates drawbacks, and offers means of...