Présentée dans le cadre des conférences du CIRST, cette communication sera offerte par Andreas Pyka de l'Université de Hohenheim. Réalisée en collaboration avec Pier Paolo Saviotti de l'Université Pierre-Mendès-France, cette conférence portera sur la variété, la qualité des produits, la croissance démographique et le développement économique à long terme. En voici le résumé (en anglais).
Résumé : The main objective of this paper is to establish that innovation could not have contributed to economic development unless a demand for the goods and services created by innovation existed. In this paper we will explore the conditions required for such a demand to exist and we will argue that the process which gave rise to the observed path of economic development was the co-evolution of demand and innovation. Furthermore, we will explore how the co-evolution of demand and innovation changed the capitalist economic system from one in which most people could afford only bare necessities to one in which most people have a highly and increasingly varied pattern of consumption, including a growing proportion of items which cannot be judged necessities, and which are of higher quality than in the past. Finally, we will study the possible impact of economic policies on the above co-evolutionary process. We will carry out these explorations by means of an extension of our TEVECON model of economic development.
