information technology and the new economy of the us
The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State
... by the Nordic countries, in particular Finland and to some extent Sweden; the second by the US and the UK, and the third by Australia. Biotechnology governance in Sweden and Finland The ... historical variants of the Keynesian welfare state. The paper compares three cases of governance of the biotechnology sector: Finland and Sweden, the USA and the UK, and Australia. The aim is to integrate ... organisations and other state agencies as core participants. Lofgren & Benner The Political Economy of the New Biology’ – preliminary draft only 5core theme in the understanding of the role of the...
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Economic Reform and the Political Economy of the German Welfare State doc
... change for the time being. Now the strategy isessentially a return to the ‘policy of a calm hand’ (Politik der ruhigen Hand) of the summer of 2001, in the hope of some sort of spin-off from global ... the doctors and the health insurancefunds. Thus, the KBV collects the bills on behalf of the doctors and negotiates collec-tive contracts with the funds. Because of the KBV system, the funds ... However, both reforms had the oppo-site effect as they added to the rigidity of the labour market and created new incentivesto work in the underground economy. 26Suspension of the demographic factor...
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Tài liệu Preparing the Western Cape for the Knowledge Economy of the 21st Century ppt
... prepare the people of the province for the knowledge economy of the 21st century; • To contain the spread of HIV/AIDS and TB; • To empower the poor people of our province through the provision of ... CHAPTER 4: THE WESTERN CAPE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY 4.1 INTRODUCTION The economy of the Western Cape is woven tightly into the global economy. Almost two-thirds of the output of the private ... by the forces of globalisation and the advance of technology. Such forces present obvious opportunities for wealth creation and the betterment of the human condition in those countries and...
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Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme
... a cult and have their mindtaken over. It’s the work of tricky and perniciousmind viruses. And once the founder of the cultstarts the process, the virus of the mind takes on alife of its own.Because ... in the paradigmshift that’s currently taking place in the science of life and culture. In the new paradigm, we look atcultural evolution from the point of view of the meme, rather than the ... cycle of unwed motherson welfare, the Crips and Bloods youth gangs, and the Branch Davidian religious cult. When thesepieces of culture are ones we like, there’s noproblem. However, just as the...
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paths to a green world the political economy of the global environment
... 894.6 The environmental Kuznets curve 924.7 The vicious cycle of poverty and environmental degradation 964.8 The economy as a subsystem of the ecosystem 101Illustrationsto the difficulty of ... the theories of the political economy of the environment.Naturally, given the breadth of our labels, many disagreements existamong those in each category. We have tried to show the range of ... and the growing inequalities between and within states. But they do not see theseproblems as beyond hope. To address them, they stress the need forstrong institutions and norms to protect the...
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the mit press paths to a green world the political economy of the global environment apr 2005
... communication. The World Wide Web had just 50 pagesin 1993; by the end of the decade there were 50 million.6 The number of Internet users went from 25 million in 1995 to 400 million by the end of 2000. The ... the political economy of the global environment,striving to integrate the debates within the “real world” of global policy and the “academic world” of theory. It moves well beyond the tradi-tional ... from the new technologies and the emerging borderless economy, and if appropriate forms of global governance can be created, the risingtide of prosperity will lift everyone to new heights of well-being.28Market...
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amsterdam university press why are artists poor the exceptional economy of the arts mar 2004
... high status of the gift sphere also depends on the high status of the arts. The arts adhere to the values of the gift sphere and reject the values of the economic sphere (thesis 13).6 The Economy ... autonomous; other professionals are not autonomous.9 There is freedom of expression in the arts.10 The work of art is authentic and the artist is the unique creator of it; in other professions ... persistent beliefs aboutart and artists make the economy of the arts exceptional (thesis 7).3 1THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE ARTS INFLUENCES THE ECONOMY OF THE ARTStable 1 the mythology of the arts1 Art is sacred.2...
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Tài liệu Research " The Dissertation Committee for Fang Yin Certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: Business Value of Information Technology in the Internet Economy " doc
... Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin ... profit is used as the dependent variable. This can be justified by the fact that most of the dot coms in the data set are new companies who have been in business for just a couple of years (The mean ... than a thousand companies and reveals some interesting results. The third essay applies the model developed in the second essay to study the difference in the adoption and pay-off of the Internet...
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Shanghaied - The Economic and Political Implications of the Flow of Information Technology and Investment Across the Taiwan Strait ppt
... between the two offshore islands and the mainland. As part of that expansion of the mini-three links, the Taiwanese government alsoexpanded the list of products that the offshore islands can ... total of 152,438 passenger trips between the offshore islands and FujianProvince, including 144,234 from the offshore islands to the mainland, and 8,200 from the mainland to the offshore islands ... NSRD conducts research and analysisfor the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the UnifiedCommands, the defense agencies, the Department of the Navy, the U.S.intelligence community,...
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE WORLD ECONOMY∗ doc
... contribution of labor input is the rate of growth of this input, weighted by the share of labor in the value of output. Finally, productivity growth is the difference between the rate of growth of output ... The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of investment in information technology (IT) equipment and software on the recent resurgence in world economic growth. The crucial role of ... in the growth of the U.S. economy has been thoroughly documented and widely discussed.1 Jorgenson (2001) has shown that the remarkable behavior of IT prices is the key to understanding the...
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The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future_1 potx
... alargeautomaker’spa-nels,softlymakecontact and thenbouncebacktoward the center of the tunnel.As the lightstouch the panel,weno-ticethattheydimslightlywhile the panelitselfpulseswith new energy. New carshavebeenpurchased, and atransfer of wealthhastakenplace.Weknowthatanaturalcycleexistswithin the tunnel.Almostinstantly,wecanseethatmanythousands of lightsscattered randomly throughout the tunnel shine a littlemorebrightly.Theseare the employees of the automakerbeingrefreshedwith new light.Anothertransfer of wealthhastakenplace. The autoworkersinturnmakepurchasesfromotherbusiness,small and large, and the lightcontin-uestoparadethrough the tunnel.We ... Al-though the large companies stand out, we can see thathugeareas of the tunnelwallsarecoveredinapatchwork of manythousands of muchsmallerpanels.Theseare the products and servicesofferedbysmallbusinessesthatalsocaterto the massmarket.*Aswe ... way“takingover.”There is little attention given to the moremundane and immediatethreatsto the jobmarket and the overall economy. Perhaps the technologists just assumethat once the technology ...
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The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future_2 ppt
... aregrowingdark.Nowweseethatmany of the verybrightestlightsin the tunnelfinallyfeel the impact and alsobegintolosetheirlight. The owners of the businessesin the tunnelareseeingmuch of theirwealthgraduallydrainaway. The ... mayhaveactuallyin-creasedforatime,astheywereabletolowertheirprices.Asaresult,theirprofits, and therefore the wealth of theirtopemployees and shareholdersincreased.Thesewere the brighterlightsin the tunnelthatinitiallybecamestronger.However,asnearlyallbusinessesin the tunnelcontinuedtoautomatejobs,atsomepoint the decreasein the num-ber of potentialcustomersbeganto ... quitesurethatcomputerswereimportantenoughtomerittheirownengineeringfield. The University of Michiganhadone of the mostad-vanced computing centers in the country. The computerthen in use was a state -of -the- art...
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The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future_3 pot
... showsquiteclearlythat the new jobtypescreatedby technology areveryoftenthemselvesquickly vaporized by the samephenomenon. The IT jobsthat are now being offshored and automated are brand new ... and computerfields, the pace of changeisunprecedented and continuestodriverelentlesslytoward the totalelimination of jobs.Whatweareseeingisclearempiricalevidence of the geometricincreasein the power of computertechnol-ogy.Traditional Jobs: The “Average” Lights in the Tunnel All the attentionbeingfocusedon new jobsbeingcreatedby technology tendstodistract us from the realitythat the bulk of the ... morepopular.Whatwillwedoifsomedayasubstantialpercen-tage of the three and ahalfmillioncashiersin the U.S.nolongerhavejobs?Whatadditionaleducation and trainingcanweoffertheseworkers? And whatjobswoulditpre-parethemfor? And what is the impact of thatpotential unemploy-mentonmarketdemandforgoods and services?Cashiersaregenerallynothighlypaid,buttheynonethelessexistaslightsinourmassmarkettunnel.Cashiers,justlikeotherworkers,drivecars,buyclothes and consumerelectronics,rent...
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The Lights in the Tunnel Automation Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future_4 pptx
... food—all of these and countlessthousands of otherstructures and chemicalsthatcompriseourbodies and make us functionareproteins. And theyareallconstructedthroughnanotechnology.Itislikelythat the coming“nanotech”revolutionwillbegin ... be-tweenserviceproviderswillquicklyproducelowerprices,easiertouseonlineinterfaces, and awidervariety of ser-vices. The resultwillberapidpenetration of thesepracticesintobusinesses of allsizes.Aswesawwith the radiologist and the ... of the geometrically increasing technology line. Prior to the point where the impact be-comesobvious,thereisreallynowaypastdatacanshowthem the steepverticalpart of the linethatliesahead.The...
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