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The Entrepreneurial State : Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths
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ISBN: 9780141986104 0141986107 Year: 2018 Publisher: London : Penguin Books,

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Conventional wisdom says innovation is best left to entrepreneurs. The author demolishes this myth, revealing how, from tech to medicine, government investment has powered wealth creation. Ignoring this history, business has shared the risks, while privatizing the rewards - increasing inequality and jeopardizing future innovation.


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Have bacteria won?
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ISBN: 9780745690797 0745690793 9780745690803 0745690807 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge, UK Malden, MA Polity Press

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Today, we are far less likely to die from infection than at any other time in history, but still we worry about epidemics, the menace of antibiotic resistance and modern 'plagues' like Ebola. In this timely new book, eminent bacteriologist Hugh Pennington explores why these fears remain and why they are unfounded. He reports on outright victories (such as smallpox), battles where the enemy is on its last stand (polio), surprise attacks from vegetarian bats (Ebola, SARS) and demented cows (BSE). Qualified optimism, he argues, is the message for the future but the battles will go on forever. -- Provided by publisher.

Arms and the state
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ISBN: 0521394465 0521558662 9780521394468 9780521558662 9780511521744 051152174X Year: 1992 Volume: 22 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This book analyses the structure and motive forces that shape the global arms transfer and production system. The author distinguishes three tiers of arms producers, defined by such factors as defence production base, military research and development capabilities, and dependence upon arms exports. These factors interact with underlying political, economic, and military motivations to drive states to produce and export arms, and provide the force which directs the international trade in arms. The author discusses the United States and the Soviet Union, the European arms suppliers, and the emerging arms producers of the developing world. Although it concentrates on the contemporary period, the book covers a wide historical span, from the development of military technologies in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to twentieth-century revolutions in weaponry. By focusing on the processes of technological innovation and diffusion, the author shows the evolutionary nature of the spread of military technologies, and situates the current arms transfer system in a broad historical context.

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