Critically assessing growth-based models of innovation policy, this enlightening study sparks new debate on the role and nature of responsible innovation.
Drawing on insights from economics, politics, and science and technology studies, it proposes the concept of ‘responsible stagnation’ as an expansion of present discussions about growth, degrowth, responsibility and innovation within planetary limitations.
This important intervention explores real-world relationships between the political economy, innovation policy and concepts of responsibility, and will be an invaluable resource for individuals and civil society organizations who seek to promote responsible innovation.
Growth, we are told, is the principal good and chief preoccupation of the modern world – widely viewed as the most influential economic idea of the 20th century, a condition showing little real sign of diminishing in the early decades of the 21st ( Schmelzer, 2016 ). With remarkable speed and uniformity, an economic notion of development has become installed at the heart of our global values – the core purpose of human society, the primary goal of policy making, and our collective secular religion ( McNeill, 2000 ; Taylor, 2009 ; Smil, 2019 ). In 1909
Riccardo Fiorito* Department of Economics University of Siena, Piazza San Francesco 7, 53100 Siena, Italy Government Debt, Taxes and Growth Abstract - By using a small discrete-time model we evaluate the impact of distortionary tax ation on the government debt-to-GDP ratio. Once the standard model is modified accord ingly, it appears that the increase of taxation has a growth cost which increases as long as die debt-to-GDP ratio rises. T h e empirical implementation uses data drawn from recent Italy's record and is based on realistic shocks to the relevant
21 PART II What’s Wrong with Innovation and Growth? A sensible question, but one whose answers are more complicated than many realize. Here, we first set out the meanings attached to the concept of innovation and ask how it has recently come to occupy the political and economic position it now holds. In particular, we draw from science and technology studies (STS), which has long sought to better incorporate the public into science and technology decision-making, and from which some of the impetus towards connecting ‘responsibility’ with ‘innovation
295 THIRTEEN Limits to Growth revisited Tim Jackson and Robin Webster Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. (Kenneth Boulding, 1973) [There are] no great limits to growth because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder. (US President Ronald Reagan, 1983) Introduction Inclusive growth is better than non-inclusive growth. Social investment is better than anti-social investment. We are not lacking in examples of either of these less
one introducing growth-dependent planning Welcome to anywheretown – the home of growth dependence! Five years ago the town centre of Anywheretown could only be described as run-down. There were boarded-up shop fronts in the high street and charity shops abounded. In the small 1970s shopping mall, the wind whistled through the bleak empty space collecting litter around the benches and the concrete planters. People complained of the lack of shopping opportunities and the need to travel to the nearest city for most of the big multiples like Marks & Spencer
23 THREE Growth and stability Policy concerns: the macroeconomy The US economy enjoyed sustained growth through the 1990s and this, although interrupted during 2001/2 thereafter made some recovery. This was the more remarkable, when set against the performance of Japan and the Eurozone, both becalmed. This was also the period when it seemed that a new economy might be developing, based around the new information technologies. Here also the US was the leader, Japan and the EU the laggards. The implication seemed clear: the new information technologies were driving
Background Child growth is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors ( Silventoinen, 2003 ). Despite a great contribution of genetic components to height variation ( Silventoinen et al, 2003 ; Visscher et al, 2006 ), the extent of genetically determined height potential achieved is shaped by environmental factors such as maternal smoking behaviour in pregnancy, nutrition, childhood illness, psychosocial and family socio-economic circumstances ( Cameron, 2012 ). Height is therefore often considered a biomarker for early life exposures ( Whitley et
Sergio Beraldo University of Naples 'Federico II' and ICER, Torino - Italy Enrico Colombatto* University of Turin and ICER, Torino - Italy Valerio Filoso University of Naples 'Federico II', Napoli - Italy Marco Stimolo University of Salerno, Salerno — Italy Growth in One (Short) Lesson Abstract - This paper argues that the economic theorizing about growth leads to one simple conclusion: the key notion is innovation and the history of growth can be aptly synthesized as the history of successful innovation. Innovation includes technological progress and
