Steven Pinker: Modern Denial of Human Nature
10 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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V.V. Chari testifies on modern macroeconomics and information prerequisites to predicting the GFC
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Clarkson explains why cycling is bad for the environment
05 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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Exaggeration About Global Warming Is Greater Than Ever
04 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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How Nordhaus responded to #globalwarming skeptics
03 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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Deception and self-deception are vital evolutionary survival strategies
29 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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Robert Trivers on the evolutionary biology of social cooperation
28 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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From the Dunedin longitudinal tudy
24 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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From Code of the Street @nytimes review
24 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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Bureaucrats a heterodox economist trusts big time to pick winners are too witless to phone to confirm her credit card details
21 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: Thinking Big Again
- From Crisis Ideology to the Division of Innovative Labour
- Technology, Innovation and Growth
- Risk-Taking State: From ‘De-risking’ to ‘Bring It On!’
- The US Entrepreneurial State
- The State behind the iPhone
- Pushing vs. Nudging the Green Industrial Revolution
- Wind and Solar Power: Government Success Stories and Technology in Crisis
- Risks and rewards: From Rotten Apples to Symbiotic Ecosystems
- Socialization of Risk and Privatization of Rewards: Can the Entrepreneurial State Eat Its Cake Too?
- Conclusion
MARIANA MAZZUCATO is a Professor in Economics at the University of Sussex, where she holds the RM Phillips Chair in Science and Technology Policy. She is interested in the interactions between technological change, economic growth, and the ways that industries are structured. Her recent work has looked at the leading role of the State in fostering innovation, and hence the implications of ‘austerity’ for Europe’s ability to be an ‘Innovation Union’. In her last book The Entrepreneurial State she argues that active State investment has been the secret behind most radical innovations, and that this requires economists to analyse the State as market ‘maker’ and market ‘shaper’ not just market ‘fixer’.
Akerlof’s lemons paper showed how markets profited from overcoming asymmetric information
21 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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WHY PEOPLE LOVE TO GOSSIP – William von Hippel
21 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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