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Vickers, John; Yarrow, George - The MIT Press

The process of selling assests and enterprises to the private sector raises questions about natural monopolies, the efficiency and equity of state-owned versus privately owned enterprises, and industrial policy. This comprehensive analysis of the British privatization program explores these...

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Public Regulation: New Perspectives on Institutions and Policies

Bailey, Elizabeth E. (contributor) - The MIT Press

data, new contexts, and new tools for analyzing the structure and performance of regulatory activity. It addresses both how … variety of new techniques for assessing regulatory performance—general equilibrium theory, laboratory methods, the integration …, "Assessment of Regulatory Performance," covers theory and methods, performance and effects. Public Regulation is fourteenth in the …

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Chips and Change: How Crisis Reshapes the Semiconductor Industry

Brown, Clair; Linden, Greg - The MIT Press

technical and competitive crises that forced it to adapt in order to continue its exponential rate of improved chip performance …

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Intellectual Property Strategy

Palfrey, John - The MIT Press

Most managers leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization’s intellectual property can help accomplish a range of management goals, from accessing new markets to improving existing products to generating new revenue streams. In this book,...

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Gurus and Oracles: The Marketing of Information

Sarvary, Miklos - The MIT Press

We live in an “Information Age” of overabundant data and lightning-fast transmission. Yet although information and knowledge represent key factors in most economic decisions, we often forget that data, information, and knowledge are products created and traded within the knowledge economy....

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Internet Architecture and Innovation

Schewick, Barbara van - The MIT Press

The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. New applications continually enable new ways of using the Internet, and new physical networking technologies increase the range of networks over which the Internet can run. Questions about the relationship between innovation and the...

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Productivity, Volume 3: Information Technology and the American Growth Resurgence

Jorgenson, Dale W.; Ho, Mun S.; Stiroh, Kevin J. - The MIT Press

The American economy has experienced renewed growth since 1995, with this surge rooted in the development and deployment of information technology (IT). This book traces the American growth resurgence to its sources within individual industries, documents the critical role of IT, and shows how...

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Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research

Brynjolfsson, Erik (contributor); Kahin, Brian (contributor) - The MIT Press

The rapid growth of electronic commerce, along with changes in information, computing, and communications, is having a profound effect on the United States economy. President Clinton recently directed the National Economic Council, in consultation with executive branch agencies, to analyze the...

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Trust and Risk in Internet Commerce

Camp, L. Jean - The MIT Press

As Internet-based commerce becomes commonplace, it is important that we examine the systems used for these financial transactions. Underlying each system is a set of assumptions, particularly about trust and risk. To evaluate systems, and thus to determine one's own risks, requires an...

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The Innovation Decision in Soviet Industry

Berliner, Joseph S. - The MIT Press

In the nineteenth century, skeptics wondered whether socialism could succeed at all. After the Bolshevik Revolution launched a first great experiment in building socialism, it was conceded that a socialist economy could indeed allocate the nation's resources with reasonable effectiveness and...

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