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Posted by m beduya on September 7, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Th 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was updated on October 11, 2010: Peter Diamond (MIT), Dale Mortensen (Northwestern University), Christopher Pissarides (LSE) shared the prize for research that improved the understanding of search frictions in markets. Their work allowed a more realistic case than classic perfect competition in [...]
Filed under Changes in Science, Technology and Engineering from Research, Development, Invention and Optimization, Learning and Teaching, News and Stories · Tagged with Akira Suzuki, Amartya Sen, Christopher Pissarides, competitiveness, Dale Mortensen, Ei-ichi Negishi, Elinor Ostrom, Kenneth Arrow, Konstantin Novoselov, Liu Xiaobo, Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize, Paul Krugman, Paul Romer, Peter Diamond, Richard Heck, Robert Solow
Posted by m beduya on August 22, 2010 · 6 Comments
Paul Krugman, the 2008 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics, says that in economies where trade is a small component of GDP as in the Philippines, the main determinant of competitiveness is domestic productivity. And, in my view, addressing development policy via domestic productivity at the industry or firm level, and not with [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Innovator Peso · Tagged with competitiveness, Hapinoy, industrial policy, Paul Krugman, productivity, productivity improvement, Rag2Riches, social enterprise, triple bottom line
Posted by m beduya on September 21, 2009 · 1 Comment
The World Economic Form (WEF) 2009 Global Competitiveness Report shows how badly the Philippines is performing absolutely and relative to its neighbors. The Philippines dropped 16 places to #87 out of 133 countries from #71 in 2008. I have always read the Report with reservations based on Paul Krugman’s comment that competitiveness does not apply [...]
Filed under Basic and Adaptive Research for STI-Learning, Books and Journals, Competence-Building from DUI-Learning, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, National Innovation Systems · Tagged with adaptive research, change management, competitiveness, David Ricardo, emerging markets, endogenous technological change, heterodox economics, increasing returns, innovation systems, non-rival partially excludable, Paul Krugman, Paul Romer
Posted by m beduya on July 19, 2009 · 9 Comments
Hongkong and Singapore are latecomer nations, in fact city-states, who were similar in many ways but took different paths toward their present developed status. As cities, they are a special case of industry clusters; as nations, these cities can be special cases to study from for the Philippines. For this paper A tale of two [...]
Filed under Books and Journals, Discovering economic locomotives and attaining competitiveness through modern industrial policy, Geographic Clusters - ASEAN, Sectors, Regions and Cities · Tagged with ASEAN, Caesar Cororaton, emerging markets, endogenous technological change, factor accumulation, Hongkong, increasing returns, industry clusters, Jane Jacobs, Paul Krugman, Paul Romer, Singapore, total factor productivity
Posted by m beduya on March 7, 2009 · 2 Comments
Professor Paul Krugman won the 2008 Nobel Prize for research in trade and geography. He gets this post because of his paper “The Myth of Asia’s Miracle” in Foreign Affairs, 1994. The paper had different findings than the World Bank on the tiger economies of Asia. Krugman said that the miracle was nothing more than [...]
