Innovation Patterns in Crisis and Prosperity: Schumpeter’s Long Cycle Reconsidered

Kleinknecht, A.

With the economic problems facing Western economics during the last decade, theories about an alleged forty-five to sixty years' pulsation in economic life (the Kondratieff-Schumpeter cycle) have experienced a remarkable renaissance. Based on a new econometric test method, the author argues that long waves can be identified not only in price series but also in the aggregate output of a number of key industrialized countries. The author's own research corroborates Schumpeter's hypothesis that, far from being caused by a flash of genius, radical innovations occur in clusters, interacting with economic fluctuations and social change.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1987-02-09

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333407455

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18559-7

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 235