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Innovation in public sector services : entrepreneurship, creativity and management
Windrum, Paul (contributor); Koch, Per M. (contributor) - 2008
This groundbreaking book provides new key insights and opens up an important research agenda. The book develops a new taxonomy of the different types of innovation found in public sector services, and investigates the key features and drivers of public sector entrepreneurship. The book contains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852048
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Information technology policy and the digital divide : lessons for developing countries
Giovannetti, Emanuele (contributor);  … - 2004
The proliferation of new information technologies throughout the world has raised some important questions for policymakers as to how developing countries can benefit from their diffusion. This important volume compares the advantages and disadvantages of the IT revolution through detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850760
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Game theory and public policy
McCain, Roger A. - 2009
years it has become a more prominent aspect of research and applications in public policy disciplines such as economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851647
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Changing climate, changing economy
Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - 2009
both how economics has changed environmental understanding and how the study of climate change has modified the economy … uncertainties / Thomas Schelling -- Comments: Towards an enlightened form of doomsaying / Jean-Pierre Dupuy -- Economics in the … became an economic question / Michel Armatte -- In defence of sensible economics / Thomas Sterner -- Some basic economics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851724
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Political events and economic ideas
Schefold, Bertram (contributor); Barens, Ingo (contributor);  … - European Society for the History of Economic Thought … - 2004
The influence of political developments on the evolution of economic thought is the main theme behind this book. As the authors reveal throughout the book, history has shown many times that political events can trigger the formulation of new economic conceptions that in turn influence the future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851726
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Dealing with terrorism : stick or carrot?
Frey, Bruno S. - 2004
Emphasising a positive approach to dealing with terrorism (the carrot), this book provides a critique of deterrence policy (the stick) which can be ineffective and even counterproductive, and proposes three alternative and effective anti-terrorist policies: Decentralisation reduces vulnerability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851819
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Political competition, innovation and growth in the history of Asian civilizations
Jones, Eric (contributor); Bernholz, Peter (contributor);  … - 2004
Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its veracity. The existing literature tends to assume that the...
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Authoritarian capitalism in the age of globalization
Bloom, Peter - 2023 - 2nd ed.
students and scholars of political science, economics, development and organization studies, international relations and …
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The handbook of technology foresight : concepts and practice
Georghiou, Luke (ed.) - 2008
Foresight has emerged as a key instrument for the development and implementation of research and innovation policy. The main focus of activity has been at the national level. Governments have sought to set priorities, to build networks between science and industry and, in some cases, to change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473802
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Can heterodox economics make a difference? : conversations with key thinkers
Armstrong, Phil (interviewer) - 2020
sheds light upon the behaviour of economists and the sociology of the economics profession by enabling economists to express … for an uptake in heterodox economic approaches, these key thinkers consider why mainstream economics still reigns supreme …-provoking book for economics students focusing both on orthodox and heterodox viewpoints, as it offers important insights to the …
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