Innovation and National State in the History of Economic Thought: Marx, Schumpeter and neo-Schumpeterians in retrospective

Innovación y Estado Nacional en la Historia del pensamiento económico: Marx, Schumpeter y los neo-schumpeterianos en retrospectiva

Pablo Benchimol ()
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Pablo Benchimol: Becario doctoral CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas); Docente de Historia del Pensamiento Económico UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires) y UNLaM (Universidad Nacional de La Matanza); Investigador del CEPLAD (Centro de Estudios para la Planificación del Desarrollo), UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2019, vol. 6, issue 2, 103-114

Abstract: Innovation is a fundamental concept in the history of economic thought. Indeed, Marx tried to find the conceptual thread that explained not only the law that governed the movement of innovations in the capitalist system, but also the development of the productive forces regardless of their historical epoch. Schumpeter represented a sudden fork in this theoretical path by rejecting those undertakings that intended to establish general universal laws. This turning point would pave the way for a neo-Schumpeterian evolutionary approach in which scholars sought to continue the legacy of their mentor in the descriptive deepening of the phenomenon and in the discussion of the role of the state within this framework. In the present article, we explore the transformation of the concept of innovation and the manner in which it has been connected with the notion of the national state by reconstructing the advances and setbacks in this process.

Keywords: Innovation; National State; History of Economic Thought; Marx; Schumpeterian and evolutionary approach.; Innovación; Estado Nacional; Historia del Pensamiento Económico; Marx; enfoque schumpeteriano y evolucionista. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B15 B41 O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.5209/ijhe.66191

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