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  • Capitalism

    The Future of an Illusion

    by Fred L. Block ...
    Virtually everyone—left, right, and center—believes that capitalist economies are autonomous, coherent, and regulated by their own internal laws. This view is an illusion. The reality is that economies organized around the pursuit of private profit are contradictory, incoherent, and heavily shaped by politics and governmental action. But the illusion remains hugely consequential because it has ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • State of Innovation

    The U.S. Government's Role in Technology Development

    by Fred L. Block, Matthew R. Keller ...
    The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has generated a fundamental re-evaluation of the free-market policies that have dominated American politics for three decades. State of Innovation brings together critical essays looking at the 'innovation industry' in the context of the current crisis. The book shows how government programs and policies have underpinned technological innovation ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Zero Marginal Cost Society

    The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author describes how current trends will create an era when anything and everything is available for almost nothing.In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times–bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin uncovers a paradox at the heart of capitalism that has propelled it to greatness but is now taking it to its death—the inherent entrepreneurial dynamism of competitive ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Some Small Countries Do It Better: Rapid Growth and Its Causes in Singapore, Finland, and Ireland

    by Shahid Yusuf, Kaoru Nabeshima ...
    Countries worldwide are struggling to imitate the industrial prowess of the East Asian pacesetters, but growth accelerations have proven remarkably transient. Building a portfolio of tradable goods and services and steadily raising the level of investment in these activities, has generally defied the best policy efforts - in particular, bringing investment ratios on par with East Asian averages ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Invisible Wealth

    The Hidden Story of How Markets Work

    by Arnold Kling, Nick Schulz ...
    The discipline of economics is not what it used to be. Over the last few decades, economists have begun a revolutionary reorientation in how we look at the world, and this has major implications for politics, policy, and our everyday lives. For years, conventional economists told us an incomplete story that leaned on the comfortable precision of mathematical abstraction and ignored the complexity ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The New Global Road Map

    Enduring Strategies for Turbulent Times

    by Pankaj Ghemawat ...
    What Globalization Now Means for Your BusinessExecutives can no longer base their strategies on the assumption that globalization will continue to advance steadily. But how should they respond to the growing pressures against globalization? And what can businesses do to control their destinies in these times of uncertainty?In The New Global Road Map, Pankaj Ghemawat separates fact from fiction by ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Standing on the Sun

    How the Explosion of Capitalism Abroad Will Change Business Everywhere

    by Christopher Meyer ...
    For half a century the US has sat at the center of the global economic system, and Western-style capitalism has dominated. Now, it's no secret that the center of gravity is shifting. The advanced economies that in 2000 consumed 75% of the world's output will, by 2050, consume just 32%. Meanwhile, the emerging economies of the world--Brazil, India, China, and others--will surge forward.As these ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Science of Science Policy

    A Handbook

    Edited by Julia I. Lane, Kaye Husbands Fealing, John H. Marburger, III, Stephanie S. Shipp ...
    Series series Innovation and Technology in the World Economy
    Basic scientific research and technological development have had an enormous impact on innovation, economic growth, and social well-being. Yet science policy debates have long been dominated by advocates for particular scientific fields or missions. In the absence of a deeper understanding of the changing framework in which innovation occurs, policymakers cannot predict how best to make and manage ... Read more

    $77.89 USD

  • Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

    The Innovation Economy and Society Nexus

    by G. Bruce Doern, David Castle, Peter Phillips ...
    Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy presents new critical analysis about related developments in the field such as significantly changed concepts of peer review, merit review, the emergence of big data in the digital age, and the rise of an economy and society dominated by the internet and information.The authors scrutinize the different ways in which federal and provincial ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Producing Prosperity

    Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

    by Gary P. Pisano, Willy C. Shih ...
    Manufacturing’s central role in global innovationCompanies compete on the decisions they make. For years-even decades-in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ... Read more

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  • Turnaround Challenge

    Business and the City of the Future

    by Michael Blowfield, Leo Johnson ...
    Do we have the rights to optimism? Can capitalism deliver a next great wave of growth? The future, wrote William Gibson, is already here. It just isn't evenly distributed yet. Lucid and polemical, Turnaround Challenge is a dig into that future and its meaning for business. It dissects the nexus of social, economic, environmental and governance crises confronting us, and a series of colliding ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Accelerating Clean Energy Technology Research, Development, And Deployment: Lessons From Non-Energy Sectors

    by Avato Patrick; Coony Jonathan d'Entremont ...
    Balancing climate change mitigation and increased energy needs in developing countries poses a serious dilemma that can only be reconciled with new and improved clean energy technologies. Factors, such as relatively low levels of research, development and deployment (RD&D) funding and significant barriers to advancement, must be overcome to accelerate innovation in the energy sector. The paper ... Read more

    $8.69 USD