Can CCS and NET enable the continued use of fossil carbon fuels after CoP21?
in Oxford Review of Economic Policy
January 2016; p ublished online April 2016 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Technological Change; Research and Development; Economywide Country Studies; Energy Economics; Non-renewable Resources and Conservation; Publicly Provided Goods; General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium; Market Structure and Pricing; General Economics. 9908 words.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) does not generate energy. CCS applied to fossil and modern bio-carbon fuels and feedstocks removes environmentally damaging CO2 emissions. CoP21 stipulated...
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Competitive harm in global supply chains: assessing current responses and identifying potential future responses
in Journal of Antitrust Enforcement
April 2018; p ublished online September 2017 .
Journal Article. Subjects: General Economics; History of Economic Thought (1925 onwards); Microeconomics; Production and Organizations; Market Structure and Pricing; Analysis of Collective Decision-making; Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainy; International Factor Movements and International Business; International Relations and International Political Economy; Economics; Public Economics; Antitrust Issues and Policies; Law and Economics; Business and Management; Economic History; Economic Development. 9996 words.
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Global supply (or ‘value’) chains add much to the value of global markets, offering benefits to both producers and consumers. Yet, global supply...
Development Economics and Method: A Quarter Century of ABCDE
in The World Bank Economic Review
June 2015; p ublished online April 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Economic Development; Economic Methodology; General Economics. 2882 words.
This, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) and also of the Washington Consensus, is a good time to take stock of development...
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THE FTC, IP, AND SSOS: GOVERNMENT HOLD-UP REPLACING PRIVATE COORDINATION
in Journal of Competition Law & Economics
March 2012; p ublished online March 2012 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Law and Economics; General Economics; Technological Change; Research and Development; History of Economic Thought (1925 onwards); Household Behaviour and Family Economics; Property Law; Microeconomics; Analysis of Collective Decision-making; Manufacturing; Welfare Economics; Antitrust Issues and Policies; Economic History; Production and Organizations; Market Structure and Pricing; Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainy; Regulation and Industrial Policy; Capitalist Systems; Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behaviour; Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance; History of Economic Thought (to 1925). 21147 words.
In its recent report entitled, “The Evolving IP Marketplace,” the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposes a far-reaching regulatory approach (Proposal) that is likely to interfere with the...
Gender and Economic Development in Africa: An Overview
in Journal of African Economies
January 2014; p ublished online January 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: General Economics; Household Behaviour and Family Economics; Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity; Economic Development. 4911 words.
Despite progress made towards achieving gender equality in African countries for instance by ratification of international and regional conventions and commitments by African countries,...
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The Human Values Index: conceptual foundations and evidence from Brazil
in Cambridge Journal of Economics
November 2013; p ublished online July 2013 .
Journal Article. Subjects: General Economics; Economic Development. 9146 words.
The dominance of the ‘growth fetish’ ideology has much contributed to lure societies into believing that people’s value judgements are unnecessary for a better life and social justice. The...
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INCENTIVE EFFECTS FROM DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO HOLDUP MITIGATION SURROUNDING PATENT REMEDIES AND STANDARD-SETTING ORGANIZATIONS
in Journal of Competition Law & Economics
December 2013; p ublished online November 2013 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Property Law; History of Economic Thought (1925 onwards); General Economics; Technological Change; Research and Development; Antitrust Issues and Policies; Production and Organizations; Market Structure and Pricing; Law and Economics. 16313 words.
Debates about patent policy often focus on the potential for the threat of a court-imposed remedy for patent infringement to cause manufacturing entities and others to suffer patent holdup,...
On the nature of technologies: knowledge, procedures, artifacts and production inputs
in Cambridge Journal of Economics
January 2010; p ublished online July 2009 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Technological Change; Research and Development; General Economics; Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behaviour. 5537 words.
In the most general terms, a technology can be seen as a human-constructed means for achieving a particular end, such as the movement of goods and people, the transmission of information or...
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The Power and Pitfalls of Experiments in Development Economics: Some Non-random Reflections
in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
December 2010; p ublished online December 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Technological Change; Research and Development; General Economics; History of Economic Thought; Economic Development. 15605 words.
Impact evaluation based on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) offers a powerful tool that has fundamentally reshaped development economics by offering novel solutions to long-standing...
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Reality and technology
in Cambridge Journal of Economics
January 2010; p ublished online December 2008 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Technological Change; Research and Development; General Economics. 4809 words.
Is it possible to have a wide and deep theory of technology? Commodification provides a helpful clue. It refers to the width of the economy and suggests incisive criticism. Although it is...
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