Description
This book brings together an absolutely first-rate group of thinkers, including several Nobel Prize winners, who were invited to a 2003 conference spurred by the publication of William J. Baumol's The Free-Market Innovation Machine. These thought-provoking essays illustrate the potential of Baumol's framework to considerably advance our understanding of what drives entrepreneurship, innovation, and long-term economic growth. -- Scott Stern, Northwestern University This book's remarkable achievement is to gather some of the brightest minds in economics to discuss some of the most important issues in the field--innovation, entrepreneurship, and growth. It is particularly refreshing to see these topics addressed at a variety of levels and from a variety of research perspectives. The combination of microeconomists and macroeconomists, and even economic historians, is a rare instance of communication across the subfields of economics. This impressive book will be useful to both economics generalists and specialists. -- Thomas Hellmann, University of British Columbia
About the Author
Eytan Sheshinski is Sir Isaac Wolfson Professor of Public Finance at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Robert J. Strom is Director of Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. William J. Baumol is Academic Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at New York University, and Professor Emeritus and Senior Economist at Princeton University.
Reviews
"This book brings together an absolutely first-rate group of thinkers, including several Nobel Prize winners, who were invited to a 2003 conference spurred by the publication of William J. Baumol's The Free-Market Innovation Machine. These thought-provoking essays illustrate the potential of Baumol's framework to considerably advance our understanding of what drives entrepreneurship, innovation, and long-term economic growth."-Scott Stern, Northwestern University
"This book's remarkable achievement is to gather some of the brightest minds in economics to discuss some of the most important issues in the field-innovation, entrepreneurship, and growth. It is particularly refreshing to see these topics addressed at a variety of levels and from a variety of research perspectives. The combination of microeconomists and macroeconomists, and even economic historians, is a rare instance of communication across the subfields of economics. This impressive book will be useful to both economics generalists and specialists."-Thomas Hellmann, University of British Columbia
Book Information
ISBN 9780691129457
Author Eytan Sheshinski
Format Hardback
Page Count 400
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 680g