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Posted by m beduya on March 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Here’s a story of passion and hard work(-in-progress)! (Note: As a work around on the technical constraint between posts and pages in the template, this Post links to the Working Paper that summarizes the status, as work-in-progress, of an appreciative theory of economic change and development for emerging markets.) Please click on this link to [...]
Filed under Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy · Tagged with appreciative theory, development, economic change, innovation systems, Richard Nelson, Social Innovation, SYNTHESiST
Posted by m beduya on February 5, 2011 · 4 Comments
After two years, SYNTHESiST has moved from just looking at innovation systems and change management at firm- and industry-level into a tentative development framework for emerging markets. Using this Post as main source, I have created a Page entitled An Appreciative Theory of Economic Change and Development under Working Papers on the Sidebar at right. [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Changes in Institutions, Policy and Regulation from Need, Transparency and Empowerment, Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy · Tagged with appreciative theory, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, change management, co-evolution, development, Douglass North, economic change, emerging markets, innovation systems, new institutional economics, Oliver Williamson, Richard Nelson
Posted by m beduya on August 10, 2010 · 3 Comments
William Easterly criticized his fellow economists in international financial institutions for failing poor countries in their elusive quest for growth in his ‘hard-nosed’ (Solow) and ‘original’ (The Economist) 2001 book. In the Preface to this edition (2002), he writes “the World Bank encourages gadflies like me to find another job.” He had to move on [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with Bill Easterly, change management, development, emerging markets, endogenous technological change, incentives, industrial policy, NIS, Paul Romer, Richard Nelson
Posted by m beduya on July 30, 2010 · 8 Comments
Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel Prize winner for economics, is one of the most eminent development economists today. In his book, Development as Freedom (1999, Anchor), Professor Sen quotes Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics in justifying why he believes freedom is more important than wealth as the true object and subject of development: “wealth is evidently [...]
