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  • Advanced Public Procurement as Industrial Policy

    The Aircraft Industry as a Technical University

    by Gunnar Eliasson ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This study is about the macroeconomic effects of positive externalities or industrial spillovers around advanced production. The case explored is the “technology di- dend” around Swedish aircraft industry, and in particular around the aircraft ma- facturer Saab, and the major industrial project of the JAS 39 Gripen multirole combat aircraft. The project is partly an updating of my book (in Swedish ... Read more

    $268.99 CAD

  • Visible Costs and Invisible Benefits

    Military Procurement as Innovation Policy

    by Gunnar Eliasson ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines the historic role of professional and demanding military customers in industrial development. Particular emphasis is paid to public procurement of military equipment as a catalyst for innovation; and the civilian commercialization of military technologies (from gunpowder and cannons to submarines, missiles and aircraft) is documented by many case illustrations that show how ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • Microfoundations of Economic Growth

    A Schumpeterian Perspective

    Edited by Gunnar Eliasson, Christopher Green, Charles R. McCann Jr. ...
    Series series The International Schumpeter Society Series
    The contributors to this volume seek further understanding of the microfoundations of economic growth. It focuses on three subjects that interested the great Austrian and Harvard economist, Joseph A. Schumpeter: innovation, technological change, and economic growth. The first part of the volume treats institutions, markets, and entrepreneurs, without which analysis of the firm makes little or no ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

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    Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up

    by David Colander, Roland Kupers ...
    How ideas in complexity can be used to develop more effective public policyComplexity science—made possible by modern analytical and computational advances—is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While these standard narratives are ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Invisible Wealth

    The Hidden Story of How Markets Work

    by Arnold Kling, Nick Schulz ...
    The discipline of economics is not what it used to be. Over the last few decades, economists have begun a revolutionary reorientation in how we look at the world, and this has major implications for politics, policy, and our everyday lives. For years, conventional economists told us an incomplete story that leaned on the comfortable precision of mathematical abstraction and ignored the complexity ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • After Greenwashing

    Symbolic Corporate Environmentalism and Society

    by Frances Bowen ...
    Series series Organizations and the Natural Environment
    Businesses promote their environmental awareness through green buildings, eco-labels, sustainability reports, industry pledges and clean technologies. When are these symbols wasteful corporate spin, and when do they signal authentic environmental improvements? Based on twenty years of research, three rich case studies, a strong theoretical model and a range of practical applications, this book ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Theory of the Firm for Strategic Management

    Economic Value Analysis

    by Manuel Becerra ...
    Strategic decisions deal with the long-term direction of the firm and its main activities, usually the responsibility of the top managers in an organization. Because the firm is the critical unit of analysis in strategy, we need to define what firms are, how they create value, and what their organizational boundaries are in order to understand their overall performance. However, this must be done ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Economics of Creative Destruction

    New Research on Themes from Aghion and Howitt

    Edited by Ufuk Akcigit, John Van Reenen ...
    A stellar cast of economists examines the roles of creative destruction in addressing today’s most important political and social questions.Inequality is rising, growth is stagnant while rents accumulate, the environment is suffering, and the COVID-19 pandemic exposed every crack in the systems of global capitalism. How can we restart growth? Can our societies be made fairer? Editors Ufuk Akcigit ... Read more

    $62.09 CAD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Innovation

    Edited by Bronwyn H. Hall, Nathan Rosenberg ...
    Series Book 1 - Handbook of the Economics of Innovation
    Economists examine the genesis of technological change and the ways we commercialize and diffuse it. The economics of property rights and patents, in addition to industry applications, are also surveyed through literature reviews and predictions about fruitful research directions. Two volumes, available as a set or sold separately - Expert articles consider the best ways to establish optimal ... Read more

    $150.39 CAD

  • Competition and Entrepreneurship

    by Israel M. Kirzner ...
    Stressing verbal logic rather than mathematics, Israel M. Kirzner provides at once a thorough critique of contemporary price theory, an essay on the theory of entrepreneurship, and an essay on the theory of competition. Competition and Entrepreneurship offers a new appraisal of quality competition, of selling effort, and of the fundamental weaknesses of contemporary welfare economics.Kirzner's ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Agile Procurement

    Volume I: Adding Value with Lean Processes

    by Bernardo Nicoletti ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book is the first of two volumes presenting a business model to add value through Procurement. Including several case studies of successful implementation, it demonstrates how the increasing complexity of the business environment requires a significant intervention on the management of processes and information within individual organizations and through inter-company relations. Agile ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD

  • An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change

    by Richard R. Nelson, Sidney G. Winter ...
    This book contains the most sustained and serious attack on mainstream, neoclassical economics in more than forty years. Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter focus their critique on the basic question of how firms and industries change overtime. They marshal significant objections to the fundamental neoclassical assumptions of profit maximization and market equilibrium, which they find ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD