Overview
- Highlights how technological change has created unemployment at various points in the past
- Examines how ideas of wellness, sustainability, and the limits of growth have changed over time
- Explores how human and economic capabilities have been increased due to innovation and technological development
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought (PHET)
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About this book
This book provides an overview of the importance of science, technology, and innovation in the history of economic thought. It charts how science has responded to societal needs and global challenges to highlight the way in which knowledge and technology have been used to benefit society. Particular attention is given to modern concerns, such as climate change, technological unemployment, and social unrest, which are contextualised within the work of the Scottish Enlightenment, Marx, Weber, and Schumpeter. Broader debates, including the relationship between invention and economic development, the alienation of labour, and institutional change, are also considered.
This book aims to shed new light on our understanding of science, technology, and innovation by placing them within ideas from the history of economic thought. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the history of economic thought and the economics of innovation and technology.
Keywords
- Institutional change
- Economic development
- Energy productivity
- Science and knowledge
- Neoclassical approach to technological change
- Schumpeter on innovation
- Scottish Enlightenment
- Energy efficiency
- Technological unemployment
- Institutional problems for innovation
- National innovation policies
- Alienation of labour
- Austrian economics on innovation
- Sustainability and technological progress
- Future innovations
Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Classical contributions
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Neoclassical Contributions and Its Alternatives
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Some Specific Controversies Solved
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Conclusion
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Estrella Trincado Aznar is Professor of History of Economic Thought at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Fernando López Castellano is Professor of Economics at the University of Granada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Science, Technology and Innovation in the History of Economic Thought
Editors: Estrella Trincado Aznar, Fernando López Castellano
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40139-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40138-1Published: 19 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-40141-1Published: 19 October 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-40139-8Published: 18 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-6578
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6586
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 287
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Economics, general, Natural Resource and Energy Economics