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This essay uses Edmund Phelps new book Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs,Challenge, and Change … (Princeton University Press, 2013) as inspiration to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship. The book is laudable for its … innovation and the lack of convincing empirical evidence for the claim that the rate of innovation has slowed. These flaws are …
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individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …
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individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531672
individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213308
individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265295
Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...
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the possible impact of income inequality on 290 values and attitudes in forty industrial nations from an economic … perspective. The results show that inequality has a significant impact on values and attitudes especially concerning religion and …
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Despite the continued popularity of cross national culture research across social sciences, the use of multidimensional …
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We highlight a new factor behind integration: tolerance in the immigrants' background culture. We hypothesize that it … is easier to partake of economic, civic-political, and social life in a new country for a person stemming from a culture … from the European Social Survey. The results indicate that tolerance in the background culture is a robust predictor of …
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We highlight a new factor behind integration: tolerance in the immigrants' background culture. We hypothesize that it … is easier to partake of economic, civic-political, and social life in a new country for a person stemming from a culture … from the European Social Survey. The results indicate that tolerance in the background culture is a robust predictor of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013465286