The Creative Impulse in Human Progress - Couverture rigide

Kingston, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0972648429 ISBN 13 : 9780972648424

Editeur : Leonard R Sugerman Pr Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Book by Kingston William

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

By forcing us to look at economic innovation in these wide terms, Mr. Kingston has made a significant contribution where conventional economists have virtually declared themselves bankrupt, leaving the task of exploration to a rather small band of specialists, historians, and an occasional poet of the creative process like Jacob Bronowski. The author has thought deeply about the problems of creativity in business, and, I should guess, lived with them. His book is a personal statement about an intensely human process. It is worth reading at a time when industrial civilization will require heroic efforts if it is not to be overwhelmed by excessive population increase; food, energy and raw material supply; and the problems of pollution control. --By W. W. Rostow

Présentation de l'éditeur

This new edition of a book which was the forerunner of much modern writing about economic innovation, also contains a detailed case study of the antibiotic revolution, the 'domestication' of bacteria, a change which ranks in importance with the move from hunter-gathering to settled agriculture 10,000 years ago. This new Chapter deals with the contrasting personalities of the 'inventor,' Alexander Fleming, the 'innovator,' Howard Florey, and the 'academic researcher,' Selman Waksman; the institutional arrangements which hindered and helped the development of penicillin and streptomycin; and how luck plays such an important role in all human effort that is made under conditions of uncertainty rather than risk.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Leonard R Sugerman Pr Inc
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0972648429
• ISBN 13: 9780972648424
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible