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1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A Theory of Innovation, Flourishing, and Growth/ Edmund Phelps -- Overview of the Chapters/ Raicho Bojilov, Gylfi Zoega, and Hian Teck Hoon -- I. ESTIMATING INNOVATION-ACROSS TIME AND ACROSS NATIONS -- 1. Innovation: The Source of Rapid Growth/ Raicho Bojilov -- 2. Sources of Indigenous Innovation and Channels of Its Transmission across Countries/ Raicho Bojilov -- 3. Indigenous Innovation during the IT Revolution: We Never Had It So Good?/ Raicho Bojilov -- II. THE ROOTS AND BENEFITS OF INNOVATION |
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4. A Case Study of Iceland's Successful Innovators/ Gylfi Zoega -- 5. The Force of Values/ Gylfi Zoega -- 6. Individual Values, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation/ Raicho Bojilov -- 7. Innovation, Job Satisfaction, and Performance in Western European Countries/ Gylfi Zoega -- III. TWO APPLICATIONS OF ROBOTS -- 8. Growth Effects of Additive and Multiplicative Robots alongside Conventional Machines/ Hian Teck Hoon -- 9. Wage Effects of Additive and Multiplicative Robots alongside Factory Buildings and Physical Structures/ Hian Teck Hoon |
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10. Additive Robots, Relative Prices, and Indigenous Innovation/ Hian Teck Hoon -- Epilogue/ Edmund Phelps -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Summary |
Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps argues that the high level of innovation in the West was not a result of scientific discoveries plus entrepreneurship. Rather, modern values--particularly the individualism and self-expression prevailing among the people--fueled the dynamism needed for widespread innovation. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Technological innovations.
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Entrepreneurship.
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Job satisfaction.
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Individualism.
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Economic development.
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entrepreneurs. |
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economic development. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Free Enterprise. |
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Economic development. |
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Entrepreneurship. |
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Individualism. |
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Job satisfaction. |
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Technological innovations. |
| Added Author |
Bojilov, Raicho, 1982-
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Hoon, Hian Teck.
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Gylfi Zoega.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Phelps, Edmund S. Dynamism : The Values That Drive Innovation, Job Satisfaction, and Economic Growth. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, ©2020 9780674244696 |
| ISBN |
9780674246683 (electronic book) |
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0674246683 (electronic book) |
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9780674244696 (cloth) |
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0674244699 |
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