The book studies growth paths in an overlapping generations model with land and exhaustible resources as factors of production. It is shown that land rules out inefficient growth paths.

The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...

The globalized Western culture of innovation, as propagated by major aid institutions, does not necessarily lead to empowerment or improvement of the well-being of the stakeholders. On the contrary, it often blocks viable indigenous innovation cultures. In African societies and African Diasporas...

Purpose of this article is to introduce the concept of a new cultural institution, "medialab". Media laboratory is an interdisciplinary institution that combines the tasks of scientific, educational, cultural and artistic institutions. They are spaces in which technology and digital media are...

We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...

Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der grundlegenden Beziehung und Bedeutung von Bildung, Intuition und Kreativität als entscheidende Triebkräfte für Innovationen und Entrepreneurship. In diesem Zusammenhang stellen sich die zentralen Fragen, was unter Bildung zu verstehen ist und welche kreativen...

Interest in the effects of labor migration on the receiving economy has not produced ample insights regarding its long-run consequences. Important as it may be, the impact on wages and employment, especially on groups whose labor market characteristics are similar to those of migrants, could be...

This paper is motivated by an attempt to account for the empirical finding that quite often migrants outperform the native-born. The underlying idea is that how migrants fare, absolutely and relative to the indigenous population, depends on group attributes ratber than on individual abilities...

The author reviews some specific ways in which human resource professionals can assist management in managing other salaried professionals.