the face of what they consider the incoherent era of "pluralism" or "postmodernism" that began in the late twentieth … conspicuous innovation increased, conceptual artists could respond to these incentives more quickly and decisively than their …

government intervention? To answer this question, this paper introduces diversity to the canonical model of quot;warm glowquot …; giving. Diversity may have two effects on incentives: it may attenuate individuals' altruistic preferences for public goods …

of a pluralism without privilege, but they also had doubts about its possibility. They offered some reasons to prefer … pluralism with privilege to the absence of both. They worried that centralization, democratic or otherwise, might be the … preeminent fact of modern state consolidation, and that purely voluntary, equal, associational pluralism might not be powerful …

product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting new machines and organizational practices) and adopt foreign … technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that … jointly explains the observed selection process and the innovation decisions. Further, we show in the data that innovation on …

that the total current period (static) welfare gains of introducing a process or a product innovation are, on average …

process innovation. There are strong reasons why an efficient economy ought to concentrate both job creation and destruction …

investigate the motives of the contributing firms as well as the potential for such commons to encourage innovation and diffusion … knowledge management that combine open innovation and patenting …