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Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy

Brynjolfsson, Erik - The MIT Press

A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that...

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Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy

Brynjolfsson, Erik - The MIT Press

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Race and Entrepreneurial Success: Black-, Asian-, and White-Owned Businesses in the United States

Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - The MIT Press

Entrepreneurial Success, minority entrepreneurship authorities Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb examine racial disparities in business …

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Public Policy and the Economics of Entrepreneurship

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas (contributor); … - The MIT Press

Entrepreneurship has been a subject of much recent discussion among academics and policymakers because of the belief … W. Bush promoted his economic plan by pointing to its encouragement of entrepreneurship. Yet, despite its importance …, the topic of entrepreneurship is underrepresented in the economics literature. The contributors to Public Policy and the …

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The Global Internet Economy

Kogut, Bruce (contributor) - The MIT Press

By 2002, all but a handful of countries were connected to the Internet. The intertwining of the Internet and the globalization of finance, corporate governance, and trade raises questions about national models of technology development and property rights. The sudden ability of hundreds of...

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Trade and Poverty: When the Third World Fell Behind

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - The MIT Press

Today's wide economic gap between the postindustrial countries of the West and the poorer countries of the third world is not new. Fifty years ago, the world economic order--two hundred years in the making--was already characterized by a vast difference in per capita income between rich and poor...

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The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance

Kogut, Bruce (contributor) - The MIT Press

The financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no one seems to have credit. This book maps the influence of these types of economic and...

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Open Economy Macroeconomics in Developing Countries

VŽgh, Carlos A. - The MIT Press

This rigorous and comprehensive textbook develops a basic small open economy model and shows how it can be extended to answer many important macroeconomic questions that arise in emerging markets and developing economies, particularly those regarding monetary, fiscal, and exchange rate issues....

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Something for Nothing: A Novel

Klein, Michael W. - The MIT Press

David Fox (Ph.D. Economics, Columbia, Visiting Assistant Professor at Kester College, Knittersville, New York) is having a stressful year. He has a temporary position at a small college in a small town miles from everything except Albany. His students have never read Freakonomics. He thinks he...

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Inside and Outside Liquidity

Holmström, Bengt - The MIT Press

Why do financial institutions, industrial companies, and households hold low-yielding money balances, Treasury bills, and other liquid assets? When and to what extent can the state and international financial markets make up for a shortage of liquid assets, allowing agents to save and share risk...

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