Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy

Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman

MIT Press, Jan 29, 1993 - Business & Economics - 376 pages

Grossman and Helpman develop a unique approach in which innovation is viewed as a deliberate outgrowth of investments in industrial research by forward-looking, profit-seeking agents.

Traditional growth theory emphasizes the incentives for capital accumulation rather than technological progress. Innovation is treated as an exogenous process or a by-product of investment in machinery and equipment. Grossman and Helpman develop a unique approach in which innovation is viewed as a deliberate outgrowth of investments in industrial research by forward-looking, profit-seeking agents.

Contents

• Growth and Technology: 1
• Traditional Growth Theory: 22
• Expanding Product Variety: 43
• Rising Product Quality: 84
• Factor Accumulation: 112
• Small Open Economy: 144
• Dynamic Comparative Advantage: 177
• Hysteresis: 206
• Trade and Growth: 237
• International Transmission of Policies: 258
• Imitation: 281
• Product Cycles: 310
• Lessons about Growth: 334

About the author

Gene M. Grossman is Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics and Director of the International Economics Section at Princeton University.

Elhanan Helpman is Professor of Economics at Harvard University, the Archie Sherman Chair Professor of International Economic Relations in the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel-Aviv University, and a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy; M I T PRESS READINGS IN ECONOMICS; Mit Press; Readings in Economics Series
• Authors: Gene M. Grossman, Elhanan Helpman
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: MIT Press, 1993
• ISBN: 0262570971, 9780262570978
• Length: 376 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Economics / General