1st Edition

Economic Complexity and Human Development How Economic Diversification and Social Networks Affect Human Agency and Welfare

By Dominik Hartmann Copyright 2014
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book combines the human development approach and innovation economics in order to explore the effects that structural economic change has on human development. While economic diversification can provide valuable new social choices and capabilities, it also tends to lead to more complex decision processes and changes to the set of capabilities required by people to self-determine their... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Development Paradigms  3. Towards a ‘Sen Meets Schumpeter’ Approach  4. Economic Diversification and Human Development  5. Social Networks, Innovation and Human Development  6. Entrepreneurship and Human Development  7. Policy Dimensions for Structural Change and Human Development  8. Conclusion

Biography

Dominik Hartmann is Research Fellow at the University of Hohenheim, Germany and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, USA. His work examines the complex relationships between innovation, structural economic change and human development.