...Roger E. Backhouse; Harro Maas This article traces the attempts of W. Rupert Maclaurin to improve the research profile of economics at MIT through establishing a research project on the economics of innovation, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The project is important because it marks...

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... offered Samuelson an assistant professorship, at a salary of $3,000 per year.11 Samuelson recalls that while he was considering the offer, Rupert Maclaurin, who was trying to build up MIT’s economics department, phoned him daily, dangling before him the prospect of research funds, including money...

... change, Rupert Maclaurin (see Backhouse and Maas 2016), Schumpeter expressed the same argument, also citing Gilfill- an s research: [Usher and Gilfillan] are interested in the process of the growth of technological knowledge as such and not at all in the economic and business aspects of actual...