This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...

This thesis deals with the problem of technical change, its forms, causes and effects. It treats certain aspects of this large subject from a perspective that may be labelled as "Classical-Schumpeterian". The aim is to push the evolutionary theory of differential growth a bit further and to...

The theory of economic development (1934) : the fundamental phenomenon of economic development -- The theory of economic development (1911) : the fundamental phenomenon of economic development -- The theory of economic development (1911) : the view of the economy as a whole -- Entrepreneur...