According to the contemporary political economy literature on France, the country appears caught in the worst of all possible worlds: it fails to create the conditions for economic growth and employment by deregulating labour markets as the UK has done, and it lacks the institutional...

In an earlier study of the policy orientations of innovative entrepreneurs, it was observed that there were considerable variations within the high-innovation and low-innovation groups identified for the purpose of comparing policy orientations. The possibility of identifying sub-types within...

This study develops a new formal theoretical rubric for ranking of proxies for institutional factors that, conceptually, have taxonomy of either of facilitators of, or constraints on economic development. Illustrative implementations of the formal theoretical rubric reveal that spending on each...