Innovation, knowledge and growth: Adam Smith, Schumpeter and the moderns

1. Introduction -- 2. Technical progress, capital accumulation and income distribution in classical economics : Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Karl Marx -- 3. Joseph A. Schumpeter : an economist between Marx and Walras -- 4. Innovations and profits : Schumpeter and the classical heritage -- 5. On the growth of knowledge about the role of knowledge in economic growth : a critical assessment of recent literature on growth theory -- 6. Who is going to kiss Sleeping Beauty? : On the "classical" analytical origins and perspectives of input-output analysis -- 7. Whither the history of economic thought? : Going nowhere rather slowly?

Heinz Kurz is a major contemporary figure in the study of the history of economic thought and this new collection brings together recent work on growth theory, integrating the study of the history of economic analysis with contemporary economic theorizing. Kurz draws on the work of Schumpeter and Smith to articulate the relationships between innovation, knowledge and growth. Essays included range in subject, from considering Schumpeter's work in Graz and the problem of innovation and profits from a Schumpeterian point of view to the concepts of knowledge and economic growth and the state of th