The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations pdf

Philippe Aghion è professore al College de France e all'INSEAD, visiting professor alla London School of Economics e membro della Econometric Society e dell'American Academy of Arts and Sciences. La sua ricerca verte sull'economia della crescita. Con Peter Howitt, ha aperto la strada al cosiddetto paradigma della crescita schumpeteriana, che è stato successivamente utilizzato per analizzare la progettazione delle politiche di crescita e il ruolo dello stato nel processo di crescita. Gran parte di questo lavoro è riassunto nel loro libro congiunto Endogenous Growth Theory (MIT Press, 1998) e The Economics of Growth (MIT Press, 2009), nel suo libro con Rachel Griffith su Competition and Growth (MIT Press, 2006) e in il suo sondaggio "What Do We Learn from Schumpeterian Growth Theory" (in collaborazione con U. Akcigit e P. Howitt). Nel 2001, Philippe Aghion ha ricevuto il Premio Yrjo Jahnsson come miglior economista europeo sotto i 45 anni, nel 2009 ha ricevuto il Premio John Von Neumann e nel marzo 2020 ha condiviso con Peter Howitt il BBVA “Frontier of Knowledge Award” per “sviluppare un teoria della crescita economica basata sull'innovazione che emerge dal processo di distruzione creativa”. Più recentemente Philippe Aghion ha prodotto un nuovo libro intitolato Il potere della distruzione creativa (Odile Jacob, Harvard University Press) insieme a C. Antonin e S. Bunel. Pur fornendo una rivalutazione delle basi del successo economico e un progetto per il cambiamento, The Power of Creative Destruction mostra anche che in definitiva spetta a noi creare un futuro equo e prospero.

The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations pdf da Philippe Aghion

From one of the world’s leading economists and his coauthors, a cutting-edge analysis of what drives economic growth and a blueprint for prosperity under capitalism.
Crisis seems to follow crisis. Inequality is rising, growth is stagnant, the environment is suffering, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed every crack in the system. We hear more and more calls for radical change, even the overthrow of capitalism. But the answer to our problems is not revolution. The answer is to create a better capitalism by understanding and harnessing the power of creative destruction―innovation that disrupts, but that over the past two hundred years has also lifted societies to previously unimagined prosperity.
To explain, Philippe Aghion, Céline Antonin, and Simon Bunel draw on cutting-edge theory and evidence to examine today’s most fundamental economic questions, including the roots of growth and inequality, competition and globalization, the determinants of health and happiness, technological revolutions, secular stagnation, middle-income traps, climate change, and how to recover from economic shocks. They show that we owe our modern standard of living to innovations enabled by free-market capitalism. But we also need state intervention with the appropriate checks and balances to simultaneously foster ongoing economic creativity, manage the social disruption that innovation leaves in its wake, and ensure that yesterday’s superstar innovators don’t pull the ladder up after them to thwart tomorrow’s. A powerful and ambitious reappraisal of the foundations of economic success and a blueprint for change, The Power of Creative Destruction shows that a fair and prosperous future is ultimately ours to make.