ABSTRACT

This book deals with the prime movers of socio-economic development, innovations and technical change, their origins, forms and effects. It contains a set of closely related chapters, some of which have been previously published as papers in scholarly journals

chapter 1|5 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|30 pages

Technical progress, capital accumulation and income distribution in Classical economics

Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Karl Marx

chapter 3|29 pages

Joseph A. Schumpeter

An economist between Marx and Walras

chapter 4|22 pages

Innovations and profits

Schumpeter and the Classical heritage

chapter 5|29 pages

On the growth of knowledge about the role of knowledge in economic growth

A critical assessment of recent literature on growth theory 1

chapter 6|21 pages

Who is going to kiss Sleeping Beauty?

On the ‘Classical' analytical origins and perspectives of input–output analysis

chapter 7|20 pages

Whither the history of economic thought?

Going nowhere rather slowly?*