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Openness Book:

Openness to Creative Destruction: Sustaining Innovative Dynamism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Corrected pp. 94-96 (Table 7.1 and Table 7.2) of Openness to Creative Destruction: Sustaining Innovative Dynamism. This PDF includes three pages that fix Oxford University Press post-proof production formatting errors in Table 7.1 and Table 7.2. The Press promises to correct their errors in any future print runs of the book, and in the Kindle version.

Openness to Creative Destruction: Sustaining Innovative Dynamism. A handout on my book published in June 2019 from Oxford University Press. Handout includes a Table of Contents and brief description. The handout corresponds to the manuscript draft of August 10, 2018.

 

Papers, Notes, Reviews:

"Build the Hill: How the Resilient Entrepreneur Can Persevere."    Journal of Private Enterprise 36, no. 1 (Spring 2021):  ??-??.

"Response from Arthur M. Diamond, Jr. in What 21st-Century Works Will Merit a Close Reading in 2050?: First Tranche of Responses."  Econ Journal Watch  17, no. 2 (Sept. 2020):   511-514.

"Robots and Computers Enhance Us More Than They Replace Us."  The American Economist  65, no. 1 (March 2020): 4-10.

"Cross-Current, or Change in the Direction of the Mainstream?" Real-World Economics Review  no. 90 (Dec. 2019): 33-39.

"Innovation Unbound." Mercatus Center Policy Brief issued October 16, 2019. [Discusses the implications of Openness to Creative Destruction for regulatory policy.]

"Innovative Dynamism Improves the Environment."  Libertarian Papers: A Journal of Libertarian Scholarship  10, no. 2 (2018):  233-275.

"How to Cure Cancer: Unbinding Entrepreneurs in Medicine." Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 7, no. 1 (2018): 62-73.

"Keeping Our Cool:  In Defense of Air Conditioning."   Economics & Business Journal: Inquiries & Perspectives 8, no. 1 (Oct. 2017): 1-36.

“Review of Cord and Hammond, eds. Milton Friedman:  Contributions to Economics and Policy.”  Journal of Economic Literture  55, no 2  (June 2017):  649-651.

"Seeking the Patent Truth: Patents Can Provide Justice and Funding for Inventors."  The Independent Review 19, no. 3 (Winter 2015): 325-355.

"The Creative Destruction of Labor Policy."  Libertarian Papers: A Journal of Libertarian Scholarship  6, no. 2 (2014):  107-134.

"The Effects of Spanish-Language Background on Completed Schooling and Aptitude Test Scores." Economic Inquiry  51, no. 1 (Jan. 2013):  527-562.   (with Luis Locay and Tracy L. Regan).  

"The Epistemology of Entrepreneurship."   Advances in Austrian Economics 17 (2012):   111-142. 

“McCloskey's Great Fact;  A Review of:  McCloskey, Deirdre.  Bourgeois Dignity:  Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World.”   Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy  1, no. 2 (2012):  200-205.

"Review of Andersen, Esben Sloth.  Joseph A. Schumpeter:  A Theory of Social and Economic Evolution." EH.Net Economic History Services, August 20, 2012.  URL: http://eh.net/book_reviews/joseph-schumpeter-theory-social-and-economic-evolution

"Review of Hébert, Robert F. and Albert N. Link.  A History of Entrepreneurship." EH.Net Economic History Services, April 19, 2012.  URL:  http://eh.net/book_reviews/history-entrepreneurship

“Review of  Ebenstein, Lanny.  Milton Friedman:  A Biography.”  Journal of the History of Economic Thought  33, no 2  (June 2011):  280-283.

"Review of Emmett, Ross B. ed., The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics." EH.Net Economic History Services, May 6, 2011. URL: http://eh.net/book_reviews/elgar-companion-chicago-school-economics

"Schumpeterian Labor Economics:  The Labor Pains (and Labor Gains) from Creative Destruction."   Somewhat cleaned-up version of the paper presented at the meetings of the International Schumpeter Society in Denmark, June 24, 2010.

"Using Video Clips to Teach Creative Destruction."    Journal of Private Enterprise 25, no. 1 (Fall 2009):  151-161.

"Schumpeter vs. Keynes: "In the Long Run Not All of Us Are Dead"."   Journal of the History of Economic Thought 31, no. 4  (December 2009):  531-541.  [copyright by Cambridge University Press; PDF also downloadable from:   http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A67sV8RL ]

"Review of Langlois, Richard N., The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler and the New Economy." EH.Net Economic History Services, Aug. 5, 2009. URL: http://eh.net/book_reviews/dynamics-industrial-capitalism-schumpeter-chandler-and-new-economy

“Schumpeter's Best Move:  Review of:  McCraw, Thomas K.  Prophet of Innovation:  Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction.”   Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology  27-A  Bingley, UK:  JAI Press, 2009, pp. 207-223.

"Fixing Ideas:  How Research is Constrained by Mandated Formalism."  Journal of Economic Methodology   16, no. 2 (June 2009):  191-206.   Much revised, and more narrowly focused, version of paper presented at AEA.

“The Career Consequences for a Scientist of a Mistaken Research Project:  The Case of Polywater.”  The American Journal of Economics and Sociology  68, no. 2 (April 2009):  387-411.

“How Institutional Incentives and Constraints Affect the Progress of Science.”  Prometheus 26, no. 3 (Sept. 2008):  231-239.

"Economics of Science."  In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition forthcoming 2008, Basingstoke and New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This article is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been reviewed or edited. The definitive published version of this extract may be found in the complete New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics in print and online, 2008, Volume 7, pp. 328-334.

“Review of  Taleb, Nassim Nicholas.  The Black Swan.”  Journal of Scientific Exploration  22, no. 3 (Fall 2008):  419-422.

"The Determinants of Election to the Presidency of the American Economic Association:  Evidence from a Cohort of Distinguished 1950’s Economists."  Scientometrics 73, no. 2 (Nov. 2007):  131-137.  (with Robert J. Toth).

"Thriving at Amazon:  How Schumpeter Lives in Books Today."    Econ Journal Watch 4, no. 3 (Sept. 2007):  338-444. 

“Review of  Hammond, J. Daniel and Claire H. Hammond, eds.,  Making Chicago Price Theory:  Friedman-Stigler Correspondence 1945-1957.”  Journal of the History of Economic Thought  30, no. 2 (June 2008):  258-262.

"The Neglect of Creative Destruction in Micro-principles Texts."  History of Economic Ideas 15, no. 1 (2007):  197-210.

"Schumpeter's Creative Destruction: A Review of the Evidence."  Journal of Private Enterprise 22, no. 1 (Fall 2006):  120-146.

"The Relative Success of Private Funders and Government Funders in Funding Important Science."  The European Journal of Law and Economics 21, no. 2 (April 2006): 149-61.

"Measurement, Incentives, and Constraints in Stigler's Economics of Science."  The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 12, no. 4 (December 2005):  635-661.

"Schumpeter's Central Message."  Paper Presented at Milan International Schumpeter Society Conference, June 12, 2004.

"Zvi Griliches's Contributions to the Economics of Technology and Growth."  Economics of Innovation and New Technology 13, no. 4 (June 2004):  365-397.

"Edwin Mansfield's Contributions to the Economics of Technology."  Research Policy  32, no. 9 (Oct. 2003):  1607-1617.

"Scientists' Salaries and the Implicit Contracts Theory of the Labor Market."  International Journal of Technology Management 22, nos. 7/8 (2001):  688-697. 

"The Complementarity of Scientometrics and Economics."  Chapter 16 in The Web of Knowledge.  Edited by Blaise Cronin and Helen Barsky Atkins.  American Society for Information Science, 2000, pp. 321-336.

 

 

Media



Kate Wand slightly edited my American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) article "When I Knew More Than Hayek," and transformed it into a video she titled "Hayek, Covid & The Use of Knowledge in Society." This is the YouTube version of the video that "premiered" on Jan. 4, 2021. If you click above, the video should play within my web site.


 



The YouTube clip above, "Arthur Diamond on Openness to Creative Destruction," is the full hour and 15 minute EconTalk audio podcast that was recorded on 7/15/19 and posted on 8/12/19. (The only video component is that you get to look at the cover of my book.) The host and interviewer was Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. If you click on it, it should play within my web site.

 

 


The YouTube clip above, "Arthur Diamond on Brunelleschi and Ghiberti's Rivalry," is a two minute and 35 second excerpt from the EconTalk audio podcast on my Openness to Creative Destruction book that was recorded on 7/15/19 and posted on 8/12/19. (The only video component is that you get to look at a smiling photo of me from about 10 years ago.) The host and interviewer for EconTalk is Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. If you click on it, it should play within my web site.

 

 


The YouTube clip above, "Arthur Diamond on Outsiders," is a three minute and 52 second excerpt from the EconTalk audio podcast on my Openness to Creative Destruction book that was recorded on 7/15/19 and posted on 8/12/19. (The only video component is that you get to look at a smiling photo of me from about 10 years ago.) The host and interviewer for EconTalk is Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. If you click on it, it should play within my web site.

 

 

Kauffman Foundation announced (on 10/31/11) their "most popular" haiku describing the U.S. economy:

 

jobs and Jobs are gone

need more Jobs to get more jobs

innovate to grow

Arthur Diamond

 




The YouTube clip above, "Wbur Wright Circles Manhattan," is a brief, elegiac introduction to my book Openness to Creative Destruction: Sustaining Innovative Dynamism. It was recorded on March 24, 2019.

 

 

The YouTube clip above shows me describing my Honors Colloquium on Creative Destruction.  It was  recorded on July 6, 2011 in Mammel Hall, the location of the College of Business at the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO). I am grateful to Charley Reed of UNO University Relations for doing a great job of shooting and editing the clip.
 

 

Audio download of debate between Art Diamond and Stan Cox (author Losing Our Cool) on whether air conditioning is good (Diamond) or bad (Cox).  Broadcast on Joy Cardin Show on the Wisconsin Public Radio network on Weds., June 8, 2011, from about 7:00 - 7:50 AM.


 

 


 

 

Links

A 53 minute audio/video PowerPoint lecture on Unbinding Entrepreneurs in Medicine. Some of this lecture is loosely based on my paper "How to Cure Cancer."

 

A one hour and 49 minute audio/video PowerPoint lecture on The Innovative Entrepreneur that is mainly based on stories and lessons-learned from the lives of inventors and entrepreneurs discussed in my book Openness to Creative Destruction: Sustaining Innovative Dynamism.

A 24 minute audio/video PowerPoint lecture on The Frackers, recorded for my Economics of Technology seminar, having especially to do with the role of serendipity and courage in invention and entrepreneurship.

 

 

Econ 2200:  Ch. 5 PowerPoint Video with Diamond Audio Comments

Econ 2200:  Ch. 10 PowerPoint Video with Diamond Audio Comments

Econ 2200:  Entrepreneurship PowerPoint Video with Diamond Audio Comments

Econ of Tech:  Koch's Science of Success PowerPoint Video with Diamond Audio Comments

 

Great paper showing long-term labor benefits from free market creative destruction:  Cox and Alm. "The Churn:  The Paradox of Progress."  Dallas Fed Annual Report, 1992.

Great paper showing the recent labor benefits from free market creative destruction:  Levy and Murnane.  "Book Excerpt:  The New Division of Labor."  The Milken Institute Review, 2004.

Page 20 of this paper has a great table showing that most new jobs created are higher in the hierarchy of skills, than were the old jobs that were destroyed:  Cox and Alm.  "A Better Way."  Dallas Fed Annual Report, 2003.

 

Honors Colloquium on Creative Destruction Student Critical Review Presentations:

Anderson, Erica on Creative Destruction:  How Globalization Is Changing the World's Cultures

Christensen, Andrew on Strategic Intuition:  The Creative Spark in Human Achievement

Christensen, Daniel on Evolutionary Economics and Creative Destruction

Kirkland, Nathan on The Elusive Quest for Growth:  Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

Knipe, Spencer on The New Division of Labor:  How Computers Are Creating the Next Job Market

McGovern, Marshal on Slackonomics:  Generation X in the Age of Creative Destruction

Olsen, Jake on Blue Ocean Strategy:  How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant

Olsen, Ross on Only the Paranoid Survive:  How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

Rogers, Elizabeth on Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Wood, Tadd on The Age of Turbulence:  Adventures in a New World

 

Other Links:

Excel spreadsheet of basic content analysis of 1,176 Amazon books that mention Schumpeter

"Amazon Data Details" (Notes intended to complement and provide supporting information for:  "Thriving at Amazon:  How Schumpeter Lives in Books Today.")

Library of Economics and Liberty

Association of Private Enterprise Education

 

 
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