This paper argues for the necessity and potential of introducing Schumpeter's understanding of economic development as structural change into Amartya Sen's people-oriented development as freedom approach. Sen and other authors on social choice, human development and inequality have effectively...

In this paper we bridge a gap between innovation economics and the human development approach by analyzing positive and negative effects of different types of economic diversification on social welfare. Economic variety is a driver and outcome of economic development. However, diversification...

In the last decades substantive advance has been made in the measurement and understanding of frontier innovation in highly industrialized settings. However, little research focused on the process of learning and the introduction of novelties in smallholder farming of poor agricultural...

A growing body of literature shows how intragenerational occupational mobility affects economic dynamics and social stratification. However, a systemic overview for more comprehensive research and public policies is still missing. Using methods from structured literature reviews and network...

Research on economic complexity has shown that a country’s type of exports conditions its future path of economic diversification and economic growth. Yet little emphasis has been put on the inequality associated with the types of products traded between countries and different regions of the...

While the study of culture and its effects on economic, social, and psychological processes has experienced an explosion of attention, a systematic literature review on the integration of Human Development (HD) with cultural values is still missing. Based on a comprehensive view of HD (applying...