The "economics" problem arises with the need for investment at high and stable levels to produce long term secure employment (even at reduced hours of work and better income distribution), for it is such investments which engenders economic growth with corresponding threats to the sustainability...

The Tasmaninan Government has recently followed the reputably successful New Brunswick Government of Canada in setting up an industrial strategy to build an information technolgy (IT) industry of significance. The strategy aims to overcome isolation in small region-based economies and...

Many quantitative studies have shown a stylised fact that fluctuations in business fixed investment dominate the business cycle pattern. The dynamics of the investment process have historically been seen as important elements of capital formation and economic progress. Why is it then that...