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- The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors
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- 1962
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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The papers here range from description and analysis of how our political economy allocates its inventive effort, to studies of the decision making process in specific industrial laboratories.
Originally published in 1962.
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Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 3-16
- The Supply of Inventors and Inventions
- pp. 143-170
- Part III Case Studies
- pp. 277-278
- Part IV Nonmarket Factors
- pp. 359-360
- The Decision Making Problem in Development
- pp. 477-508
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