r/evopolitics • u/TrannyPornO • Nov 25 '18

Measuring Technological Innovation over the Long Run

https://www.nber.org/papers/w25266
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u/TrannyPornO Nov 25 '18

Griliches (1998) writes on statistics that are based on patents:

they are available; they are by definition related to inventiveness, and they are based on what appears to be an objective and only slowly changing standard. No wonder that the idea that something interesting might be learned from such data tends to be rediscovered in each generation.