The economics of creative destruction : new research on themes from Aghion and Howitt / [edited by] Ufuk Akcigit, John Van Reenen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Innovation and Growth Policy / Edmund S. Phelps -- Creative Destruction and Economic Growth / Ufuk Akcigit -- Product Market Competition, Creative Destruction and Innovation / Rachel Griffith and John Van Reenen -- Innovation, Antitrust Enforcement, and the Inverted-U / Richard Gilbert, Christian Riis, and Erlend Riis -- Innovation Networks and Business-Stealing / Matthew O. Jackson, Antoine Mayerowitz, Abhijit V. Tagade -- Trade and Innovation / Marc J. Melitz and Stephen J. Redding -- Inequality and Creative Destruction / Richard Blundell, Xavier Jaravel, and Otto Toivanen -- Labor Market Dynamics When Ideas are Harder to Find / Adrien Bilal, Niklas Engbom, Simon Mongey, and Giovanni L. Violante -- When Workers' Skills Become Unbundled: Some Empirical Consequences for Sorting and Wages / Oskar Nordström Skans, Philippe Choné, and Francis Kramarz -- Productivity Slowdown: Reducing the Measure of Our Ignorance / Timo Boppart and Huiyu Li -- Productivity Growth and Real Interest Rates: A Circular Relationship / Antonin Bergeaud, Gilbert Cette, and Rémy Lecat -- The Depth and Breadth of the Step-by-step Innovation Framework / Sina Ates -- Harnessing Creative Destruction to the Tackling of Climate Change: Purpose, Pace, Policy / Nicholas Stern -- Science as Civil Society: Implications for a Green Transition / Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson -- Climate Policy in Need of Plan B / Christer Fuglesang and John Hassler -- Directed Technical Change and Environmental Economics / Antoine Dechezleprêtre and David Hémous -- Creative Destruction, Distance to Frontier, and Economic Development / Michael Peters and Fabrizio Zilibotti -- Socialism, Capitalism, State Capitalism and Innovation / Gérard Roland -- Lobbying Behind the Frontier / Matilde Bombardini, Franceso Trebbi, and Olimpia Cutinelli-Rendina -- Barriers to Creative Destruction: Large Firms and Non-Productive Strategies / Salomé Baslandze -- Finance and Growth: Firm Heterogeneity and Creative Destruction / Sebnem Kalelmi-Özcan and Felipe Saffie -- Creative Destruction, Finance, and Firm Dynamics / Murat Alp Celik -- Taxation, Innovation, and Economic Growth / Charles I. Jones -- The Effects of Taxes on Innovation: Theory and Empirical Evidence / Stefanie Stantcheva -- Of Academics and Creative Destruction: Startup Advantage in the Process of Innovation / Julian Kolev, Alexis D'Alessandro, Fiona Murray, and Scott Stern -- Creative Destruction or Destructive Creation? A Prelude to the Industrial Revolution / Joel Mokyr.

"Leading social scientists explore pressing issues-monopoly and inequality, growth and innovation, climate change and fraying social safety nets-through the lens of creative destruction. Far more than a theory of capitalist dynamics, creative destruction proves an important idea for illuminating a wide range of social and political challenges"-- Provided by publisher.