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Innovation, Resources and Economic Growth

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Editors:
  1. Alberto Quadrio Curzio

    1. Faculty of Political Sciences, Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy

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  2. Marco Fortis

    1. Faculty of Political Sciences CRANEC-Center of Economic Analysis and International Economy, Università Cattolica, Milano, Italy

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  3. Roberto Zoboli

    1. Faculty of Political Sciences CRANEC-Center of Economic Analysis and International Economy, Università Cattolica, Milano, Italy

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Innovation, Resources and Economic Growth: Changing Interactions in the World Economy

      • Alberto Quadrio Curzio, Marco Fortis, Roberto Zoboli
      Pages 3-35

  3. Technological Creativity and Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    2. Institutions, Technological Creativity and Economic History

      • Joel Mokyr
      Pages 39-59

  4. Innovation at Work in an Historical-Economic Perspective: Energy and Industrial Materials

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Energy Efficient Technologies: Past and Future Perspectives

      • Nathan Rosenberg
      Pages 63-82

    3. Economic Growth and the Intensity of Use of Industrial Materials

      • Marco Fortis
      Pages 83-99

  5. Scientific Revolutions and Strategies of Economic Supremacy: Advanced Materials and Biotechnologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. European Strategies in New Materials: A Global View

      • Patrick Cohendet, Marc-Jacques Ledoux
      Pages 103-126

    3. Biotechnology in the United States and Japan and the Bridge Between

      • Mark D. Dibner
      Pages 127-146

  6. Economic Growth and Agro-Food Policies in Key Problem Regions: Former USSR and LDCs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. The Agricultural and Food Sector of the Former Soviet Union. Transition to a Market Economy

      • David Gale Johnson
      Pages 149-167

    3. The Plundering of Agriculture in Africa, Asia and Latin America

      • Maurice Schiff, Alberto Valdés
      Pages 169-195

  7. Economic Growth and Natural Resources at Risk: Climate Change, Forest and Water

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Climate Change and the Future of Agriculture

      • Martin Parry
      Pages 199-220

    3. The Economic Impact of Forest Decline in Europe

      • Roberto Zoboli
      Pages 221-250

    4. World Water Resources: Assessment and Prediction

      • Igor A. Shiklomanov
      Pages 251-275

  8. Conclusion: Innovation and Resources in a Global Policy Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277
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    2. Changes in the International Order and Natural Resources

      • Jan Tinbergen
      Pages 279-289
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About this book

The analysis of the interactions between natural resource scarcity, technological innovation and the dynamics of eco- nomic systems has a long-standing tradition in economics. During the 1980s and the early 1990s, a new phase of these interactions initiated under the effects of technological revolution and the problem of the environment. The general concept behind this book is that the issue of natural resou- cesand the environment in relation to economic growth can- not be addressed without due consideration for the effects of technological innovation on thedynamics of economic sy- stems. Technological innovation alone, however, is not a sufficient condition for the sustainability of economic growth. Policies may have a role in solving the internatio- nal distribution problems generated by the non-converging development path of developed and developing countries. In particular, the new international order shaped by the events of the 1980s, made it possible for world management to ad- dress the problems of poverty and the environment.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Political Sciences, Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy

    Alberto Quadrio Curzio

  • Faculty of Political Sciences CRANEC-Center of Economic Analysis and International Economy, Università Cattolica, Milano, Italy

    Marco Fortis, Roberto Zoboli

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Innovation, Resources and Economic Growth

  • Editors: Alberto Quadrio Curzio, Marco Fortis, Roberto Zoboli

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78855-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-78857-4Published: 11 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-78855-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 300

  • Topics: R & D/Technology Policy, Environmental Economics, International Economics

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