"This book is about the cultural politics of electrification in India's capital city, and the role of technological infrastructures in shaping contemporary political imaginations in India--imaginations of the state, and also at a local level, of urban interdependence and solidar…
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"This book is about the cultural politics of electrification in India's capital city, and the role of technological infrastructures in shaping contemporary political imaginations in India--imaginations of the state, and also at a local level, of urban interdependence and solidar…
"The 'return of great power competition' between (among others) the US, China, Russia and the EU is a major topic in contemporary public debate. But why do we think of world politics in terms of 'competition'? Which information and which rules enable states and other actors in w…
Machine generated contents note: 1. Innovation as a regulatory challenge: four stories; 2. The history and rots of flexible regulation; 3. Flexible regulation: key scholarship; 4. Flexible regulation scholarship, 1980-2012; 5. Flexible regulation and ideology; 6. Innovation as r…
Solidly mainstream and balanced, mirroring both insights of academic thought and real-world strategic management, this book presents concise, straight-to-the-point discussions, and timely examples, with a writing style that captures student interest. --
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Abbreviations and Acronyms; PART I: ICTs and the Well-Being of Poor Communities; 1. Introduction: People, Technology, and Well-Being; Emerging Evidence on the Links between ICTs and Development; The…
Libro que rinde un homenaje a Máximo Vega-Centeno, cuya obra es fundamental para la modernización de la economía en el Perú.
In immediate responses to the COVID-19 crisis, science and innovation are playing essential roles in providing a better scientific understanding of the virus, as well as in the development of vaccines, treatments and diagnostics. Both the public and private sectors have poured b…
Revolutionary account of the transformative potential of the knowledge economy Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is…
Explores the hidden nature of the knowledge economy and its possible futures. Unger explains the knowledge economy in the truncated and confined form that it has today and proposes the way to a knowledge economy for the many: changes not just in economic institutions but also in…
