This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth...

Prologue : what does it mean to break with Bismarck? / Gøsta Esping-Andersen -- Ordering change : understanding the 'Bismarckian' welfare reform trajectory / Bruno Palier -- A social insurance state withers away. Welfare state reforms in germany -- or, Attempts to turn around in a cul-de-sac /...

Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction: Research and Businees in the Chemical Industry; 2. From Works Laboratories to Centralised Research; 3. Expansion and Fiversification: R & D after the Second World War; 4. The Large Leap Forward: Redefining the Role of R & D in the 1970s; 5. The 1980s: Moving Away...

"A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, c.1600-1760 tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Aleppo, Syria, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book...

This book offers a dynamic perspective on regional entrepreneurship, knowledge, innovation and economic growth, with a particular focus on the role that history and culture play. The authors provide comprehensive empirical analyses offering unique insights into the spatial patterns of long-term...