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Beyond Late Development: Taiwan's Upgrading Policies
Amsden, Alice H.; Chu, Wan-wen - The MIT Press
In this book Alice Amsden and Wan-wen Chu cover new ground by analyzing the phenomenon of high-end catch-up. They study how leading firms from the most advanced latecomer countries like Taiwan have increased their market share in mature high-tech industries and services. The profits that true...
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A Model of Primary and Secondary Waves in Investment Cycles
Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002
. Uniting Schumpeter's concern for innovation with Keynes' concern for uncertainty and expectations formation, this article … focuses on the behaviour of entrepreneurs confronting uncertainty caused by innovation. Entrepreneurs' behaviour is … opened up by a successful innovation generates a state of optimism in the minds of single entrepreneurs, which eventually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077089
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Evidence Theory: A Mathematical Framework for Unpredictable Hypotheses
Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002
Shafer's evidence theory is a branch of the mathematics of uncertain reasoning that allows for novel possibilities to be conceived by a decision-maker. Many of its findings exhibit striking similarities with an alternative decision theory purported by Shackle in the 1950s, before expected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125582
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A Cognitive Model of the Learning Curve
Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002
This article provides a cognitive foundation of the parameters that regulate a model of the learning curve. Organizational learning and its actual occurrence are linked to the number of available categories and to the amount of information to be processed.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561382
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Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell
Amsden, Alice H. - The MIT Press
The American government has been both miracle worker and villain in the developing world. From the end of World War II until the 1980s poor countries, including many in Africa and the Middle East, enjoyed a modicum of economic growth. New industries mushroomed and skilled jobs multiplied, thanks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991841
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Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell
Amsden, Alice H. - The MIT Press
The American government has been both miracle worker and villain in the developing world. From the end of World War II until the 1980s poor countries, including many in Africa and the Middle East, enjoyed a modicum of economic growth. New industries mushroomed and skilled jobs multiplied, thanks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973018