This article seeks to reconnect to scholarship from the 1970s and 1980s that emphasized significant discontinuities in the development of the US economy. Drawing on a unique data set of prize-winning innovations between 1971 and 2006, we document three key changes in the US economy. The first is...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Note on the 2001 Edition -- Author's Acknowledgments -- The Hundred Years' Peace -- Conservative Twenties, Revolutionary Thirties -- ''Habitation versus Improvement'' -- Societies and Economic Systems -- Evolution of the Market Pattern -- The...

The present paper studies the relationship between state and development in the post-communist world. My strategy is to extend the applicability of the 'developmental state' concept to the post-communist context. Whereas the 'developmental state' model emphasizes the relationship between state...