The final book talk for the Fall 2015 semester features James Bessen’s recent book Learning by Doing: The Real Connection between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth (Yale 2015). James Bessen is an economist who studies technology and innovation policy. He was founder and CEO of a software company that developed the first desktop publishing program. Currently, Mr. Bessen is a Lecturer in Law at Boston University School of Law. His work has been widely cited in the press as well as by the White House, the U.S. Supreme Court, judges at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Federal Trade Commission. Learning by Doing examines history to understand how new technologies currently affect wages and skills. Today’s great paradox is that w...
Empirical evidence suggests that university knowledge contributes to business innovation, by, among ...
Defence date: 27 February 2015Examining Board: Professor Árpád Ábrahám, EUI, Supervisor; Professor M...
Capitalism developed where and when it did because there was high information access. There was high...
An important study of the relationship between technology, skills, and economic inequality that answ...
Abstract. Across most industries, workers feel the effects of automation. Does innovation permanent...
Stephen Ezell, author of the recent book “Innovation Economics – The Race for Global Advantage”, pub...
Stephen Johnson gives a talk for his book The Economist\u27s Guide to Intellectual Property: What It...
Economists disagree how much technology raises demand for workers with pre-existing skills. But tech...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a global development that shows no signs of slowing down. In his...
This dissertation examines the social and economic processes that generate innovation and distribute...
John Van Reenen introduces his new book, The Economics of Creative Destruction, co-edited with Ufuk ...
Karl Marx predicted a world in which technical innovation would increasingly devalue and impoverish ...
Daniel Beunza looks at how universities can continue to stay on top of technological change in the f...
Suffolk University Law Professor Jessica Silbey discusses The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators, and...
This book will summarize what we know about technology and inequality across disciplines, and seek o...
Empirical evidence suggests that university knowledge contributes to business innovation, by, among ...
Defence date: 27 February 2015Examining Board: Professor Árpád Ábrahám, EUI, Supervisor; Professor M...
Capitalism developed where and when it did because there was high information access. There was high...
An important study of the relationship between technology, skills, and economic inequality that answ...
Abstract. Across most industries, workers feel the effects of automation. Does innovation permanent...
Stephen Ezell, author of the recent book “Innovation Economics – The Race for Global Advantage”, pub...
Stephen Johnson gives a talk for his book The Economist\u27s Guide to Intellectual Property: What It...
Economists disagree how much technology raises demand for workers with pre-existing skills. But tech...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a global development that shows no signs of slowing down. In his...
This dissertation examines the social and economic processes that generate innovation and distribute...
John Van Reenen introduces his new book, The Economics of Creative Destruction, co-edited with Ufuk ...
Karl Marx predicted a world in which technical innovation would increasingly devalue and impoverish ...
Daniel Beunza looks at how universities can continue to stay on top of technological change in the f...
Suffolk University Law Professor Jessica Silbey discusses The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators, and...
This book will summarize what we know about technology and inequality across disciplines, and seek o...
Empirical evidence suggests that university knowledge contributes to business innovation, by, among ...
Defence date: 27 February 2015Examining Board: Professor Árpád Ábrahám, EUI, Supervisor; Professor M...
Capitalism developed where and when it did because there was high information access. There was high...