Richard R. Nelson

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Richard Robinson Nelson (* 1930 in New York City ) is an American economist and professor of international affairs at Columbia University . His main research area is evolutionary economics .

Life

The economist did his Ph.D. 1956 at Yale University . From 1968 to 1986 the economist was a professor at Yale University and since 1997 professor of international affairs at the University of Columbia . Nelson is one of the leading exponents of evolutionary economics .

Honors

The Richard R. Nelson Prize of the scientific journals Research Policy and Industrial and Corporate Change is named after Nelson .

Works

  • as editor with Jan Fagerberg and David C. Mowery: The Oxford Handbook of Innovation. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2005, ISBN 0-19-928680-9 .
  • Understanding Technical Change as an Evolutionary Process. (= Professor Dr. F. De Vries Lectures in Economics. Theory, Institutions, Policy. Vol. 8). North-Holland, Amsterdam et al. 1987, ISBN 0-444-70207-5 .
  • with Sidney G. Winter: An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA et al. 1982, ISBN 0-674-27228-5 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Geoffrey M. Hodgson: The 2007 Veblen-Commons Award Recipient: Richard R. Nelson. ( Memento from 7 July 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Journal of Economic Issues. Vol. 41, No. 2, ISSN  0021-3624 , 2007, p. 311.
  2. ^ Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. ase.tufts.edu, accessed October 12, 2015 .
  3. Industrial and Corporate Change | THE RICHARD R. NELSON AWARD PRIZE. oxfordjournals.org, accessed November 14, 2015 .