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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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Population aging, intergenerational transfers and the macroeconomy
Clark, Robert Louis (contributor);  … - 2007
Economic and policy implications of population aging / Robert Clark, Andrew Mason, Naohiro Ogawa -- Population aging, changing retirement policies and lifetime earnings profiles in Japan / Robert Clark, Naohiro Ogawa, Rikiya Matsukura -- Firm productivity, work-force age and educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420024
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A post Keynesian perspective on twenty-first century economic problems
Davidson, Paul (contributor) - International Post Keynesian Workshop <(6th :2000 … - 2002
This book explores key economic problems and new policies for the global economy of the 21st century. The contributors discuss to what extent past policy errors were due to the incompetence of policymakers, and highlight problems including: international payments imbalances and currency crises,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851665
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Changing climate, changing economy
Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - 2009
How did climate change become an economic issue? Why is economic discourse so influential on the public policy of climate change? How can it best contribute to the scientific and public debates? Nine eminent scholars explain in this book both how economics has changed environmental understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851724
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Knowledge in the development of economies : institutional choices under globalisation
Sugden, Roger (contributor); Sacchetti, Silvia (contributor) - 2009
This innovative book offers a critical perspective on the state of the current global economy, making sense of knowledge-related issues by critically assessing existing institutional choices, as well as pointing to new ways forward
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851893
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The making of national economic forecasts
Klein, Lawrence Robert (contributor) - 2009
Korea / You Chan 'Kevin' Chung -- 9. Current quarter model for Turkey / Süleyman Özmucur -- 10. Estimation of the US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851894
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Innovation and entrepreneurship
Audretsch, David B. (contributor); Falck, Oliver (contributor) - 2009
This comprehensive volume integrates pathbreaking and seminal scholarship from two interrelated fields - innovation and entrepreneurship - with the chapters providing a compelling link between the two. The editors seek to introduce and contextualize some of the most important research. Topics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852273
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The seminal works of the Great Depression
Parker, Randall E. - 2011
), 'Slump and Recovery: The UK Experience', in Theo Balderston (ed.), The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar … European History, 9 (2), 183-207 -- Ben S. Bernanke (1995), 'The World on a Cross of Gold: A Review of "Golden Fetters: The … Depression', in Theo Balderston (ed.), The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump, Chapter 9, Basingstoke, UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852314
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The industrial dynamics of the new digital economy
Frøslev Christensen, Jens (ed.); Maskell, Peter (ed.) - 2003
This book investigates the implications of digital technologies on the industrial and business dynamics of modern economies. In-depth studies analyse how deep-rooted work practices of the Old Economy have been dramatically challenged when confronted with the entrepreneurial wave of the New...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473763
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The early history of financial economics, 1478-1776 : from commercial arithmetic to life annuities and joint stocks
Poitras, Geoffrey - 2000
Despite being an integral part of modern economic science, the subject of financial economics has deep historical roots. Geoffrey Poitras provides an exhaustive account of the early development of the subject and, in so doing, provides a sound basis for the study of modern financial economics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473873