Science, Technology and Innovation in the History of Economic Thought

In: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought

Abstract

1. Invention, institutional change and economic development: from Scottish Enlightenment to the IPE -- 2. Friedrich List, contemporaries and followers: national innovation policies revisited -- 3. Transhumanism as alienation in Marx's humanist approach -- 4. Energy efficiency, productivity and the Jevons paradox -- 5. Max Weber: Science, Technology and Knowledge -- 6. Schumpeter and Austrian economics on innovation -- 7. The Neoclassical approach, its crisis and the Schumpeterian echo in the current paradigm of the economic analysis of Technological Change -- 8. Some misconceptions regarding innovation (and how reading the classics might help to overcome them) -- 9. Sustainability and technological progress -- 10. Technological unemployment as a historical debate -- 11. On the controversies on capital as a selection between paradigms -- 12. Influence of Schumpeter in the national context -- 13. Institutional problems for innovation although inventions are available -- 14. Conclusion and future research.