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sustainability and Georgescu‐Roegen’s concept of a viable technology.  …
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development. It points out that the role of various institutions in the economic performance of many developing countries cannot … performance of a country and more specifically on agricultural production and on the conservation and management of the … environment. It is generally agreed that property rights are a claim to a benefit stream where the state provides protection from …
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issues pertaining to the implementation of technology into the disbursement and repayment system of an Islamic microfinance … technology by clients of Islamic microfinance institution in Malaysia. Although many approved to the diffusion of innovation in … technology illiterate.  …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate two famous postulates of the Schumpeterian doctrine and its implications for the US economy. Design/methodology/approach – Analytically, the authors investigate whether sector size matters for sectoral: technological change and stability,...
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evolution is founded on the advance of technology which constitutes the “core of culture”. The essence of the process of culture … technology and in its store as culture. The process of economic evolution increases the capacity of culture and thereby enables …
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Suggests a spatial conjunctive use model of an irrigation project in which the utility invest optimally for the water distribution system and charge farmers the shadow price of surface and groundwater. Seepage from the irrigation canal and on the field are assumed to recharge the groundwater...
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predicated upon technological advance conceptualized as both material and social technology. It is argued in this paper that an … explanation as to why technology is endogenous to the processes of growth and economic development is best served vis‐à‐vis an …
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engineering”, focused on sustainability of production. Gives attention to the role of technology in this process. Expresses …
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Chronic unemployment is a flaw in modern capitalism that calls for reform. Unlike expansionary demand‐management programmes, public works will be non‐inflationary if they put back into the economy in government spending no more than the dollar value taken from the economy in taxes. The...
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In the past 15 years there have been major changes in the conduct of science and technology policy in advanced … developments around three themes: the nature of science and technology as distinctive bodies of knowledge arising in different … institutional contexts; the market failure approach and its development into an evolutionary rationale for science and technology …
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