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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Nobel Lecture: The Economics of Creative Destruction

  • Philippe Aghion
American Economic Review
vol. 116, no. 7, July 2026
(pp. 2324–56)
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Citation

Aghion, Philippe. 2026. "Nobel Lecture: The Economics of Creative Destruction." American Economic Review 116 (7): 2324–56. DOI: 10.1257/aer.116.7.2324

JEL Classification

  • D21 Firm Behavior: Theory
  • K21 Antitrust Law
  • O31 Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
  • O33 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
  • O34 Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
  • O41 One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models
  • P14 Capitalist Systems: Property Rights