Openness Book:
Openness to Creative Destruction: Sustaining Innovative Dynamism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
“Corrected pp. 94-96 (Table 7.1 and Table 7.2) of Openness to Creative Destruction: Sustaining Innovative Dynamism.” This PDF includes three pages that fix Oxford University Press post-proof production formatting errors in Table 7.1 and Table 7.2. The Press promises to correct their errors in any future print runs of the book, and in the Kindle version.
Some recent or
notable research or reviews (with links to PDF
files):
"Build the Hill:
How the Resilient Entrepreneur Can Persevere." The Journal of Private
Enterprise 36, no. 1 (Spring 2021):
??-??.
"Response from Arthur M. Diamond, Jr. in What 21st-Century Works Will Merit a Close Reading in 2050?: First Tranche of Responses."
Econ Journal Watch 17, no. 2 (Sept. 2020):
511-514.
“Robots and Computers Enhance Us More Than They Replace Us.” The American Economist 65, no. 1 (March 2020): 4-10.
"Cross-Current, or Change in the Direction of the Mainstream?" Real-World Economics Review no. 90 (Dec. 2019): 33-39.
"Innovation Unbound." Mercatus Center Policy Brief issued Oct. 16, 2019. [Discusses the implications of Openness to Creative Destruction for regulatory policy.]
"Openness to Creative Destruction: Sustaining Innovative Dynamism." A handout on my book published in June 2019 from Oxford University Press. Handout incudes a Table of Contents and brief description. Corresponds to the maunuscript draft of August 10, 2018.
"Innovative Dynamism Improves the Environment." Libertarian Papers: A Journal of Libertarian Scholarship 10, no. 2 (2018): 233-275.
“How to Cure Cancer: Unbinding Entrepreneurs in Medicine.” Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public
Policy 7, no. 1 (2018): 62-73.
"Keeping
Our Cool: In Defense of Air Conditioning." Economics & Business Journal: Inquiries & Perspectives 8, no. 1 (Oct. 2017): 1-36.
“Review of Cord and Hammond. Milton Friedman:
Contributions to Economics and Policy.” Journal of Economic Literature 55, no 2 (June 2017): 649-651.
"Seeking the Patent Truth: Patents Can Provide Justice and Funding for Inventors."
The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy 19, no. 3 (Winter 2015): 325-355.
"The Creative Destruction of Labor Policy." Libertarian Papers: A Journal of Libertarian Scholarship 6 (2014): 107-134.
"The Effects of Spanish-Language Background on
Completed Schooling and Aptitude Test Scores."
Economic Inquiry 51, no. 1 (Jan. 2013):
527-562. (with
Luis Locay and Tracy L. Regan).
"The Epistemology of Entrepreneurship."
Advances in Austrian Economics 17 (2012):
111-142.
“McCloskey's
Great Fact; Review of: McCloskey,
Deirdre.
Bourgeois
Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the
Modern World.”
Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public
Policy 1, no. 2 (2012): 200-205.
"Review of
Andersen, Esben Sloth. Joseph A.
Schumpeter: A Theory of Social and Economic
Evolution." EH.Net Economic History Services,
August 20, 2012, URL:
http://eh.net/book_reviews/joseph-schumpeter-theory-social-and-economic-evolution
"Review of
Hébert, Robert F. and Albert N. Link. A
History of Entrepreneurship." EH.Net Economic History Services,
April 19, 2012, URL:
http://eh.net/book_reviews/history-entrepreneurship
"The Creative Destruction of Antitrust." Presented at the Association of Private
Enterprise Education (APEE) annual meetings in Las
Vegas, NV in April 2012.
“Review of
Ebenstein, Lanny.
Milton Friedman:
A Biography.”
Journal of the History of Economic Thought
33, no 2 (June 2011): 280-283.
"Review of
Ross Emmett, ed., The Elgar Companion to the
Chicago School of Economics." EH.Net Economic History Services,
May
6, 2011, URL:
http://eh.net/book_reviews/elgar-companion-chicago-school-economics
"Schumpeterian
Labor Economics: The Labor Pains (and Labor
Gains) from
Creative Destruction." Somewhat cleaned-up
version of the paper
presented at the meetings of the International
Schumpeter Society in Denmark, June 24, 2010.
"Using
Video Clips to Teach Creative Destruction."
The Journal of Private
Enterprise 25, no. 1 (Fall 2009):
151-161.
"Schumpeter
vs. Keynes: "In the Long Run Not All of Us
Are Dead"."
Journal of the History of Economic Thought
31, no. 4
(Dec. 2009):
531-541. [copyright by Cambridge University
Press; PDF also downloadable from:
http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A67sV8RL
"Review of
Richard N. Langlois, The Dynamics of Industrial
Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler and the New Economy." EH.Net Economic History Services, Aug.
5, 2009, URL:
http://eh.net/book_reviews/dynamics-industrial-capitalism-schumpeter-chandler-and-new-economy
"Schumpeter's
Best Move: Review
of: McCraw, Thomas K. Prophet of
Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative
Destruction." Research
in the History of Economic
Thought and Methodology 27-A
Bingley, UK: JAI Press, 2009, pp. 207-223.
"Fixing
Ideas: How Research is Constrained by Mandated
Formalism." Journal of Economic
Methodology 16, no. 2 (June 2009):
191-206. Much revised, and more
narrowly focused, version of paper presented at AEA.
"The Career Consequences for a Scientist of a
Mistaken Research Project: The Case of
Polywater."
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
68, no. 2
(April 2009):
387-411.
"How
Institutional Incentives and Constraints Affect the
Progress of Science." Prometheus
26, no. 3 (Sept. 2008): 231-239.
"Economics of
Science." In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume,
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd
ed.,
forthcoming, 2008, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
reproduced with
permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This article is
taken from the author's original manuscript and has
not been reviewed or edited. The definitive
published version of this extract may be found in
the complete New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
in print and online, 2008, Volume 7, pp. 328-334.
“Review of:
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. The Black Swan.
Journal of Scientific Exploration
22, no. 3 (Fall 2008): 419-422.
“The
Determinants of Election to the Presidency of the
American Economic Association: Evidence from a
Cohort of Distinguished 1950's Economists.”
Scientometrics 73, no. 2 (Nov. 2007):
131-137. (with Robert J. Toth).
"Thriving
at Amazon: How Schumpeter Lives in Books Today."
Econ Journal Watch 4, no. 3 (Sept. 2007):
338-444.
"Creative
Destruction: The Essential Fact about
Capitalism." Prepared for
presentation at the Summer Institute for the
Preservation of the History of Economic Thought,
George Mason University, June 2007.
“Review of:
Hammond, J. Daniel and Claire H. Hammond, eds.,
Making
Chicago Price Theory: Friedman-Stigler
Correspondence 1945-1957.”
Journal of the History of Economic Thought
30, no. 2 (June 2008): 258-262.
"The
Neglect of Creative Destruction in Micro-principles
Texts."
History of Economic Ideas 15, no. 1 (2007):
197-210.
"Fixing
Ideas: What Counts as Good Evidence that
Creative Destruction is the Essential Fact about
Capitalism?" Presented at AEA meetings on
January 6, 2007.
"Schumpeter's Creative Destruction:
A Review of the Evidence." Journal of Private Enterprise 22, no. 1 (Fall 2006):
120-146.
"The Relative Success of
Private Funders and Government Funders in Funding Important Science."
The European Journal of
Law and Economics 21,
no. 2 (April 2006): 149-161.
"Measurement,
Incentives, and Constraints in Stigler's Economics of Science."
The European Journal of the
History of Economic Thought 12, no. 4 (December 2005): 635-661.
"Schumpeter's Central
Message."
Paper Presented at Milan
International Schumpeter Society Conference, June 12, 2004.
"Zvi Griliches's
Contributions to the Economics of Technology and Growth."
Economics of Innovation and New Technology 13, no. 4 (June
2004): 365-397.
"Edwin Mansfield's
Contributions to the Economics of Technology." Research Policy 32, no. 9 (Oct. 2003):
1607-1617.
"Scientists'
Salaries and the Implicit Contracts Theory of the Labor Market."
International Journal of Technology Management 22, nos. 7/8
(2001): 688-697.
"The Complementarity of
Scientometrics and Economics."
(2000).
"Does Federal Funding "Crowd In" Private Funding of Science?"
(1999).
"The Economics of Science."
Knowledge and Policy 9, nos. 2/3
(Summer/Fall 1996): 6-49.
"Review
of: Alexander Rosenberg's
Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of
Diminishing Returns?"
(1996).
"The Core Journals of Economics." (1989).
"The Empirical Progressiveness
of the General Equilibrium Research Program." (1988).
"Science as a Rational Enterprise." (1988).
"The Polywater Episode and the
Appraisal of Theories."
(1988).
"The Life-Cycle Research Productivity
of Mathematicians and Scientists." (1986).
"What
is a Citation Worth?" (1986).
"Avery's 'Neurotic Reluctance'."
(1982).
"Planck's Principle."
(1978) (with David L. Hull and Peter D. Tessner).
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