Background
SCHMOOKLER, Jacob was born in 1918 in New Jersey, United States of America.
SCHMOOKLER, Jacob was born in 1918 in New Jersey, United States of America.
Bachelor of Arts Temple University, 1940. Doctor of Philosophy University Pennsylvania, 1951.
He began the quantitative study of technical progress in the late 1940s, well before the subject was fashionable. In his major work, Invention and Economic Growth, he argued for the endogenous nature of technical progress, again years before that point of view commanded the attention of others
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