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Innovation Policy and the Economy 2013 Volume 14

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226158426, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2014
278 pp., 23x15 cm

Appreciation of the importance of innovation to the economy has increased over the past decade. There is an active debate regarding the implications of technological change for economic policy and the appropriate policies and programs regarding resea...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2012 Volume 13

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226053585, ISBN: HB: 9780226053448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm

There is considerable debate regarding the implications of technological change for economic policy and the appropriate policies and programs regarding research, innovation, and the commercialization of new technology. This debate has intensified as...

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America

Trams or Tailfins? Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States

Logemann Jan L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226491493, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 figure, 8 tables, 12 halftones

In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of a supposed "Americanization" of European consumer societies – in...

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Better Capitalism Renewing the Entrepreneurial Strength of the American Economy

Litan Robert E., Schramm Carl J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300146783, Yale University Press, September 2012
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

In the wake of the Great Recession and America's listless recovery from it, economists, policymakers, and media pundits have argued at length about what has gone wrong with the American capitalist system. Even so, few constructive remedies have emerg...

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Business & Economics

Innovation Policy and the Economy 2011 Volume 12

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226473406, ISBN: HB: 9780226473390, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2012
176 pp., 23x15 cm

"Innovation Policy and the Economy" provides a forum for research on the interactions among public policy, the innovation process, and the economy. The distinguished contributors look at policies that affect the ability of an economy to achieve scien...

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Business & Economics

Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780226473031, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2012
632 pp., 25x15 cm, 54 tables, 1 halftone, 49 line illus.

While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to th...

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Ecology

Economics of Climate Change Adaptations Past and Present

Libecap Gary D., Steckel Richard H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226479880, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2011
368 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm, 47 tables, 3 halftones, 86 line illus.

While debates over the consequences of climate change are often pessimistic, historical data from the past two centuries indicate many viable opportunities for responding to potential changes. This volume takes a close look at the ways in which econo...

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Innovation Policy and the Economy 2010 Volume 11

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226473383, ISBN: HB: 9780226473376, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2011
176 pp., 23x15 cm

"The Innovation Policy and the Economy" series provides a forum for research on the interactions among public policy, the innovation process, and the economy. Issues covered in Volume 11 are an exploration of innovation challenges in the health care...

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Business & Economics

Targeting Investments in Children Fighting Poverty When Resources Are Limited

Levine Phillip B., Zimmerman David J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226475813, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2010
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 tables, 19 line illus.

A substantial number of American children experience poverty: about 17 percent of those under the age of eighteen meet the government's definition, and the proportion is even greater within minority groups. Childhood poverty can have lifelong effects...

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International Differences in Entrepreneurship

Lerner Josh, Schoar Antoinette

ISBN: HB: 9780226473093, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2010
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 80 tables, 52 line illus.

Often considered one of the major forces behind economic growth and development, the entrepreneurial firm can accelerate the speed of innovation and dissemination of new technologies, thus increasing a country's competitive edge in the global market....

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