Jacob Schmookler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1161262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Schmookler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmookler |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMOOKLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Patents, Invention, and Economic Change: Data and Selected Essays
Invention and Economic Growth
Invention and Economic Growth
Economic Sources of Inventive Activity
The fundamental conclusion of this paper is that technological progress is intimately dependent on economic phenomena. The evidence suggests that society may indeed affect the allocation of inventive resources through the market mechanism somewhat as it affects the allocation of economic resources generally. If this is true, then technological progress is not an independent cause of socio-economic change, and an interpretation of history as large…
An Economist Takes Issue
Bigness, Fewness, and Research
Inventors Past and Present
T NVENTION, defined as activity directed toward the discovery of new and useful knowledge about products and processes, is one of the most important phases of the growth of civilization. Yet it is one of the least understood. Who engages in an inventive activity, why, when, and how? Only in recent years has serious research been undertaken on these problems, and even now the amount of work being done to ferret out the answers is lamentably small.…
The Level of Inventive Activity
Forty-six years ago when various social theories, pregnant with nineteenth century optimism, postulated a continuous increase in the rate of discovery and invention, a Swedish scholar noted that the annual number of patents issued by the principal industrial countries showed signs of leveling off.3 This retardation contrasted sharply with the rapid increase in patenting characteristic of the nineteenth century. Subsequent investigation disclosed …
The Changing Efficiency of the American Economy, 1869-1938
T HE index of output per unit of total input that is discussed in this article is intended to describe the pattern and magnitude of technical change for the United States as a whole from I869 to I938. Based on national output and input, the index possesses the following attributes: I. Output equals gross national product in I929 prices (the Kuznets series). 2. Input equals the sum of labor, land, capital, and enterprise inputs in I929 prices. a. …
Economic Sources of Inventive Activity
The fundamental conclusion of this paper is that technological progress is intimately dependent on economic phenomena. The evidence suggests that society may indeed affect the allocation of inventive resources through the market mechanism somewhat as it affects the allocation of economic resources generally. If this is true, then technological progress is not an independent cause of socio-economic change, and an interpretation of history as large…
Bigness, Fewness, and Research
An Economist Takes Issue
The Changing Efficiency of the American Economy, 1869-1938
T HE index of output per unit of total input that is discussed in this article is intended to describe the pattern and magnitude of technical change for the United States as a whole from I869 to I938. Based on national output and input, the index possesses the following attributes: I. Output equals gross national product in I929 prices (the Kuznets series). 2. Input equals the sum of labor, land, capital, and enterprise inputs in I929 prices. a. …
The Level of Inventive Activity
Forty-six years ago when various social theories, pregnant with nineteenth century optimism, postulated a continuous increase in the rate of discovery and invention, a Swedish scholar noted that the annual number of patents issued by the principal industrial countries showed signs of leveling off.3 This retardation contrasted sharply with the rapid increase in patenting characteristic of the nineteenth century. Subsequent investigation disclosed …
Inventors Past and Present
T NVENTION, defined as activity directed toward the discovery of new and useful knowledge about products and processes, is one of the most important phases of the growth of civilization. Yet it is one of the least understood. Who engages in an inventive activity, why, when, and how? Only in recent years has serious research been undertaken on these problems, and even now the amount of work being done to ferret out the answers is lamentably small.…
Bigness, Fewness, and Research
An Economist Takes Issue
Economic Sources of Inventive Activity
The fundamental conclusion of this paper is that technological progress is intimately dependent on economic phenomena. The evidence suggests that society may indeed affect the allocation of inventive resources through the market mechanism somewhat as it affects the allocation of economic resources generally. If this is true, then technological progress is not an independent cause of socio-economic change, and an interpretation of history as large…
Invention and Economic Growth
Invention and Economic Growth
Patents, Invention, and Economic Change: Data and Selected Essays
Economics (8 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (4 works) · Neoclassical economics (3 works) · Market economy (2 works) · Research, Science, and Academia (2 works) · Biotechnology and Related Fields (1 works) · Brevets d'invention (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Classical economics (1 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (1 works)