Richard R. Nelson is an economist by training. He has taught at Oberlin College, Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, and Columbia University. He presently is director of the Program of Science, Technology, and Global Development, at the Columbia Earth Institute, George Blumenthal Professor of International and Public Affairs Emeritus at Columbia, and Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester. He has served as an economist on the US President's Council of Economic Advisors, and with the Rand Corporation.
His central interests have been in long run economic change. Much of his research has been directed towards illuminating technological change, and policies and institutions influence the evolution of technology, and how technological change in turn induces economic change more broadly. His book with Sidney Winter, An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, is widely recognized as a landmark in the field.
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