James Robinson: Balance of Power: State Society, and the Narrow Corridor to Liberty
07 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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Was It Good Fortune to be Enslaved by the British Empire?
05 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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@paulkrugman on @ProfSteveKeen’s inability to get even the basics of macroeconomics right but @NZTreasury invited him over anyway
04 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
When Marxists are mugged by reality
29 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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Question for @AOC @BernieSanders
28 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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Bruce Gilley Lecture on colonialism in Africa
26 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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Richard Posner: Fiscal Irresponsibility Clouds the Future
23 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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Richard Posner Politics in the Supreme Court
22 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’.
@TimurKuran: Persistent Authoritarianism in the Middle East and the Islamic Law
20 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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Bruce Gilley – “African Civilization and the Premature Termination of Colonialism”
20 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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