This judicious selection of recent essays demonstrates the applicability of the fundamental principles of neo-Schumpeterian economics, namely, innovation and uncertainty. The authors demonstrate how neo-Schumpeterian economics is developing into a comprehensive economic theory encompassing...

The study intends (1) to look at the importance of individual rationality as the main principle of economic behaviour, incorporated best in the concept of "homo oeconomicus". (2) to show how the third technological revolution, the "digitalization of society", may transform individual behaviour...

50 Jahre nach Joseph A. Schumpeters Tod am 8. Januar 1950 ist sein wissenschaftliches Werk noch immer von aktueller Relevanz. Professor Horst Hanusch, Generalsekretär der Internationalen Joseph A. Schumpeter Gesellschaft, würdigt das Werk des bedeutenden Ökonomen.

This paper deals with a conceptual framework allowing the analysis of long-run qualitative change in the energy system. The energy sector seems to be particularly appropriate for the analysis of qualitative change due to the following reasons: The energy sector is relevant for the development of...