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Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Reclaiming the Environmental Agenda
Ashford, Nicholas A.; Caldart, Charles C. - The MIT Press
The past twenty-five years have seen a significant evolution in environmental policy, with new environmental legislation and substantive amendments to earlier laws, significant advances in environmental science, and changes in the treatment of science (and scientific uncertainty) by the courts....
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Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies
Pinch, Trevor (contributor); Swedberg, Richard (contributor) - The MIT Press
Although social scientists generally agree that technology plays a major role in the economy, economics and technology …. This book draws on the tools of science and technology studies and economic sociology to reconceptualize the intersection … of economy and technology, suggesting materiality—the idea that social existence involves not only actors and social …
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Chips and Change: How Crisis Reshapes the Semiconductor Industry
Brown, Clair; Linden, Greg - The MIT Press
For decades the semiconductor industry has been a driver of global economic growth and social change. Semiconductors, particularly the microchips essential to most electronic devices, have transformed computing, communications, entertainment, and industry. In Chips and Change, Clair Brown and...
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Technology and the New Economy
Bai, Chong-En (contributor); Yuen, Chi-Wa (contributor) - The MIT Press
was the rise of information technology. The new technology has had such a significant impact on the economy that "the new … questions about the effects of information technology on various aspects of the economy. The topics include the relationship …
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Patents, Citations, and Innovations: A Window on the Knowledge Economy
Jaffe, Adam B.; Trajtenberg, Manuel - The MIT Press
Innovation and technological change, long recognized as the main drivers of long-term economic growth, are elusive notions that are difficult to conceptualize and even harder to measure in a consistent, systematic way. This book demonstrates the usefulness of patents and citations data as a...
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Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies
Pinch, Trevor (contributor); Swedberg, Richard (contributor) - The MIT Press
Although social scientists generally agree that technology plays a major role in the economy, economics and technology …. This book draws on the tools of science and technology studies and economic sociology to reconceptualize the intersection … of economy and technology, suggesting materiality—the idea that social existence involves not only actors and social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587777
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Technology, Engineering, and Economics
Sporn, Philip - The MIT Press
wide spectrum of interests from science and technology to financial management and public administration that was reflected …
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Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to Present
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
technology may influence its financing and, conversely, how the availability of funds influences technological advances. These … methods of funding innovation--whether it is in the auto industry or information technology--have important implications for …
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Financing Innovation in the United States, 1870 to Present
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
technology may influence its financing and, conversely, how the availability of funds influences technological advances. These … methods of funding innovation--whether it is in the auto industry or information technology--have important implications for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991843
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Unlocking Energy Innovation: How America Can Build a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Energy System
Lester; Richard K.; Hart, David M. - The MIT Press
Energy innovation offers us our best chance to solve the three urgent and interrelated problems of climate change, worldwide insecurity over energy supplies, and rapidly growing energy demand. But if we are to achieve a timely transition to reliable, low-cost, low-carbon energy, the U.S. energy...
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