Invention and Economic Growth

Preface\nContents\nThe setting of the problem\nPatent statistics\nThe role of intellectual stimuli\nThe use of important inventions as a cause of further inventions\nProductivity advance: A Case of supply and demand?\nThe amount of invention is governed by the extent of the market – the evidence of time series\nThe amount of invention is governed by the extent of the market – the evidence of cross sections\nThe sources of invention and the changing state of knowledge\nThe role of demand in consumer goods invention\nOn the \"Inevitability\" of individual inventions\nSummary and Conclusions\nAppendix A: Statistical Appendix\nAppendix B: Inventors Past and Present\nAppendix C: Important inventions in the Railroad Industry\nAppendix D. important mechanical inventions in agriculture\nAppendix E: Important inventions in the petroleum industry\nAppendix F: Important inventions in the paper industry\nIndex