This article is about convergence and why not. How about a ride to space in an elevator? Why not? A single nanotube could stretch from earth to the stratosphere and be able to support its own weight. This fact spurred NASA to review ideas proposed by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1895) a Russian...

The relationship between aspects of environmental uncertainty, such as dynamism and hostility, and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has been well established in the literature. Drawing predominantly on perceptions of uncertainty, there is general consensus that dynamism and hostility nurtures...

Business Globalization carries with it a justification based in part on democracy in markets: equal opportunity in market exchange. Markets admit all comers; outcomes are determined by endowments of quality, efficiency, and merit. In this way businesses, governments, organizations and...

This thesis seeks to develop an alternative conceptual framework through which to understand international finance. It then applies this framework to the case of China’s recent official foreign exchange accumulation. One view of international financial relations suggests an agendaof...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2010. Major: Polical Science. Advisor: John Roy Freeman. 1 computer file (PDF(); v, 169 pages, appendices A-B.

There is a prevailing opinion, in the field of International Political Economy, thatethnolinguistic diversity has a negative impact on the economic performance of countries.Some of the scholars, however, have argued against it and stated that, under certaincircumstances, the negative impact of...

Building on the two previous trips to Central America last year, International Power Institute (IPI) and its partner Tennessee Valley Infrastructure Group (TVIG) have focused their attention this quarter on project sites in Honduras. TVIG's unit--an Integrated Infrastructure Platform or...

The European Community (EC) recently commissioned a study of the impact of potential appliance standards on electricity consumption in the twelve EC nations. This study looks at refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, clothes washers, and clothes dryers. The impact of minimum efficiency standards...

The eleventh Energy Modeling Forum (EMF) working group met four times over the 1989--90 period to compare alternative perspectives on international oil supplies and demands through 2010 and to discuss how alternative supply and demand trends influence the world's dependence upon Middle Eastern...