Recent Advances in Neo-Schumpeterian Economics

Edited by Andreas Pyka, Professor and Chair in Innovation Economics, University of Hohenheim, Germany, Uwe Cantner, Professor of Economics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany and University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, Alfred Greiner, Professor of Economics, Bielefeld University, Germany and Thomas Kuhn, Professor of Economics, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

• Contents:IntroductionUwe Cantner, Alfred Greiner, Thomas Kuhn and Andreas Pyka PART I: INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION1. Competition in InnovationUwe Cantner 2. Energy, Development and the Environment: An Appraisal Three Decades After the ‘Limits to Growth’ DebateGiovanni Dosi and Marco Grazzi 3. Marshall and Schumpeter: Evolution and the Institutions of CapitalismStanley MetcalfePART II: FINANCE IN MODERN ECONOMICS 4. The Co-evolution of Technologies and Financial InstitutionsPier Paolo Saviotti and Andreas Pyka 5. The Role of Information and Risk Sharing for R&D Investment, Technological Change and Economic WelfareBurkhard Drees and Bernhard Eckwert 6. Bubbles, Crashes and the Psycho-Economic Forces Behind ThemFriedrich Kugler 7. Corporate Currency Hedging and Currency CrisesAndreas Röthig, Willi Semmler and Peter Flaschel PART III: THE PUBLIC SECTOR AND THE FUTURE OF THE WELFATE STATE8. Public Debt and Public Spending in Germany: The Last 40 YearsAlfred Greiner and Norbert Schütt 9. Biofuels, Innovations and Endogenous GrowthThomas Kuhn and Michael Pickhardt10. Paretian Welfare Theory and European Competition PolicyArnold Heertje 11. French Industrial PolicyAlain Alcouffe and Christiane Alcouffe Index