"Proposes a new conceptual platform and a new library against the colonial, postcolonial and modern/Eurocentric libraries by re-appropriating the work of key Black thinkers to rethink questions of invention, transformation, and innovation alongside those of knowledge cosmologies and epistemologies."

In this paper, we analyze the development of public consumption expenditure in Austria starting in the 1940s. We focus our attention on two hypotheses as to why public consumption expenditure has been constantly increasing: Wagner's law and Baumol's cost disease. The estimated income elasticity...

The challenging fiscal situation facing the next government means that both Labour and the Conservatives are looking for ways to improve public services without large increases in spending. Improving the productivity of public services is often proposed as a way to achieve this. This follows the...