Stumbled across a genius idea in Greater Books It is a tabulation of how many times a book appears on one of 47 lists of "Great Books". Below I have copied and pasted the "Short List", which are the 488 works that appear on at least five of these 47 lists, sorted by time period. This …
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Azoulay, Pierre, and Danielle Li (eds), 'Scientific Grant Funding', Innovation and Public Policy (Chicago, IL, 2022; online edn, Chicago Scholarship Online, 22 Sept. 2022), https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226805597.003.0005, accessed 13 Dec. 2023. Role of Grants in Research-Funding Ecosystem: Grants are essential in supporting exploratory research, particularly effective when the research is likely to have significant spillovers across domains and over time. They complement other funding mechanisms …
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Storper, Michael, Ziegler, J Nicholas, Botelho, Antonio José Junqueira, and Ornston, Darius. “On Mariana Mazzucato’s Mission Economy: a Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, London, Allen Lane, 2021.” Socio-Economic Review, Volume 20, Issue 3, July 2022, Pages 1501–1511. Published: 07 September 2022. DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwac042. Oxford University Press. Mismatch Between Moonshot Approach and Contemporary Problems: The book’s …
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Mazzucato, Mariana. Mission Economy : A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism. London: Penguin Books, 2022. Print. Necessity of Transformative Change in Political Economy: The Covid-19 crisis revealed that governments could mobilize resources significantly when needed, challenging previous austerity measures. This situation underlines the need for a visionary transformation of the political economy, akin to the ambition …
1. Foundations of Innovation Economics a) Technology, Innovation, and Evolutionary Theory Fagerberg J., “Innovation: a guide to the literature” in Fagerberg J. Mowery D. Nelson R. (ed) Handbook of innovation Oxford University Press 2004. Malerba F. Brusoni S. "Perspectives on innovation" Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2007. Hall B. Rosenberg N. "Handbook of the Economics of …
Grattan Institute. (2023). Hydrogen: Hype, Hope, or Hard Work?. [PDF file]. Retrieved from https://grattan.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Hydrogen-hype-hope-or-hard-work-Grattan-Institute.pdf Hydrogen's Potential in Decarbonization and Renewable Energy Dependency: High energy content with potential for zero emissions. Reliance on renewable sources like solar and wind is crucial. Fluctuations in renewable energy supply can impact production rates and costs. Key to achieving truly …
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"Britain’s mental-health crisis is a tale of unintended consequences: Rising awareness appears to be hurting the people with the most serious conditions" in The Economist, 8 Dec 2023, accessed: 10 Dec 2023 Public Perception: A 2019 survey found over three-quarters of Britons view mental illness as an illness like any other, the highest rate among …
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“When you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you" Nietzsche
In a crisis, wrote Milton Friedman, “the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”
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