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The argument in a nutshell -- Recurring flaws --The origins of measuring and paying for performance -- Why metrics became so popular -- Principals, agents, and motivation -- Philosophical critiques -- Colleges and universities -- Schools -- Medicine -- Policing -- The military -- Business and...
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An updated look at global trade and why it remains as controversial as everFree trade is always under attack, more than ever in recent years. The imposition of numerous U.S. tariffs in 2018, and the retaliation those tariffs have drawn, has thrust trade issues to the top of the policy agenda....
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the past two centuries in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Grossman focuses on four major …
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This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a … with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity …, favorable demographic characteristics, natural resource abundance, institutional adaptability and innovation, and growth …
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This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a … with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity …, favorable demographic characteristics, natural resource abundance, institutional adaptability and innovation, and growth …
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the past two centuries in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia. Grossman focuses on four major …
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technologies to growth based on increased efficiency and innovation--then became the problem. Thus, the key questions for the …
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different approaches to innovation, and that each is associated with a distinct pattern of discovery over a lifetime …
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innovation may depend less on lone thinkers with enormous IQs than on diverse people working together and capitalizing on their …
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How much credit can be given to entrepreneurship for the unprecedented innovation and growth of free … as their starting point William J. Baumol's 2002 book <i>The Free-Market Innovation Machine</i> (Princeton), which argued …
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