Azoulay Economics of Ideas Syllabus

# Azoulay Economics of Ideas Syllabus [Dropbox - 15.357 Economics of Ideas Azoulay-Stern Fall 2019.pdf - Simplify your life](https://www.dropbox.com/s/61uiwb0smr0vr7j/15.357%20Economics%20of%20Ideas%20Azoulay-Stern%20Fall%202019.pdf?dl=0) ### Class 1 Ideas, Innovation and Economic GrowthSeptember 12 - (*) Jones, Charles I. 2001. Chapter 4 and 5, pp. 78-86 and 96-122 inIntroduction to Economic Growth. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. - (*) Varian, Hal R. 2004. “Review of Mokyr’s ‘Gifts of Athena’.”Journal of Economic Literature42(3): 805-810.(*) - Nelson, Richard R. 1962. “The Link Between Science and Invention: The Case of the Transistor.” InThe Rate andDirection of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors, pp. 549-583. Princeton, NJ: PrincetonUniversity Press. - Hornbeck, Richard, and Enrico Moretti. 2018. “Who BenefitsFrom Productivity Growth?Direct and Indirect Effectsof Local TFP Growth on Wages, Rents, and Inequality.” NBER Working Paper #24661. - Romer, Paul M. 1990. “Endogenous Technological Change.”Journal of Political Economy98(5): S71-S102. - Aghion, Philippe, and Peter Howitt. 1992. “A Model of Growth through Creative Destruction.”Econometrica60(2):323-351. - Rosenberg, Nathan. 1979. “Technological Interdependence in the American Economy.”Technology and Culture20(1): 25-50. - Mokyr, Joel. 2005. “The Intellectual Origins of Modern Economic Growth.”Journal of Economic History65(2): 285-351. - Mokyr, Joel. 1992.The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. New York: OxfordUniversity Press. - Romer, Paul. 1996. “Why, Indeed, in America? Theory,History and the Origins ofModern Economic Growth.”American Economic Review86(2): 202-206.### Class 2 The Nature of Ideas and InnovationSeptember 19 - (*) Arrow, Kenneth. 1962. “Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention.” InThe Rate andDirection of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors, pp. 609-625. Princeton, NJ: PrincetonUniversity Press.READ pp. 609-618 ONLY. - (*) Jones, Charles I. 1999. “Growth: With or Without Scale Effects?”American Economic Review89(2): 139-144. - (*) Jones, Benjamin F. 2009. “The Burden of Knowledge and the‛Death of the Renaissance Man’: Is InnovationGetting Harder?”Review of Economic Studies76(1): 283-317. - (*) Wuchty, Stefan, Benjamin F. Jones,and Brian Uzzi. 2007. “The IncreasingDominance of Teams in Production ofKnowledge.”Science316(5827): 1036-1039. - (*) Jones, Benjamin F. 2010. “Age and Great Invention.”Review of Economics and Statistics92(1): 1-14. - (*) Bresnahan, Timothy F., and Manuel Trajtenberg. 1995.“General Purpose Technologies: Engines of Growth?”Journal of Econometrics65(1): 83-108. - [[bloomAreIdeasGetting2020]] - Agrawal, Ajay, Avi Goldfarb, and Florenta Teodoridis. 2016.“Understanding the Changing Structure of ScientificInquiry.”American Economic Journal: Applied Economics8(1): 100-128. - Brooks, Harvey. 1994. “The RelationshipBetween Science and Technology.”Research Policy23(5): 477-486. - Ó Gráda, Cormac. 2016. “Did ScienceCause the Industrial Revolution?”Journal of Economic Literature54(1): 224-239  [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Azoulay+Economics+of+Ideas+Syllabus) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Azoulay+Economics+of+Ideas+Syllabus)