The Economics of Hope: Essays on Technical Change, Economic Growth, and the Environment

Abstract

Part 1 Policies for allocation of resources to scientific and technical activities: Bernal and the social function of science and economy at the national level design and British economic performance. Part 2 The theory of innovation and evolutionary economics: the nature of innovation and the evolution of the production system networks of innovators - a synthesis of research issues innovation, changes of techno-economic paradigms and biological analogies in economics. Part 3 Values, economic growth and environment: the luxury of despair - a reply to Robert Heilbroner's Human Prospect Prometheus unbound the human use of human beings a Green techno-economic paradigm for the world economy technology, progress and the quality of life. Epilogue: Requirements for science and technology policy in the 1990s (with G. Oldham).

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