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On July 6, 2006, Professor Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky from Stanford (USA) was awarded the honorary senator status of the University of Hamburg in a special session of the Academic Senate. The speeches given are documented in this volume. The volume is supplemented by an interview given by Professor Panofsky on July 6, 2006 in Hamburg, and a tabular overview of his career, his public functions and honours.Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, born in Berlin in 1919, spent most of his childhood and adolescence in Hamburg. Forced to emigrate by the Nazis, he came to the USA in 1934. After studying physics in Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology, he quickly gained a great reputation in elementary particle physics research. He was one of the initiators of the construction of a large electron linear accelerator, which began operation at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in 1972. From 1961 until his retirement in 1984, Professor Panofsky was director of this institute.Through his great professional authority, his personal integrity and his commitment to peace and humanism, he became a role model for many young scientists. His role model was one of the formative influences that contributed to the founding of the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Center for Science and Peace Research at the University of Hamburg.

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Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky is a prominent physicist who has been an active contributor to elementary particle physics, accelerator building, and laboratory administration as well as to international security policy and arms control. This volume is a somewhat unorthodox memoir. In Panofsky’s words: "This volume contains an unsystematic account of my past work; it is not intended to be an autobiography in the conventional meaning of the term. It is not even remotely a scholarly description of the momentous developments in which I was able to participate; rather it is a recital of memorable episodes, borrowing from the compulsory preface of facetious British history: ‘History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember.’ " Pief.

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How much credit can be given to entrepreneurship for the unprecedented innovation and growth of free-enterprise economies? In this book, some of the world's leading economists tackle this difficult and understudied question, and their responses shed new light on how free-market economies work--and what policies most encourage their growth. The contributors take as their starting point William J. Baumol's 2002 book The Free-Market Innovation Machine (Princeton), which argued that independent entrepreneurs are far more important to growth than economists have traditionally thought, and that an implicit partnership between such entrepreneurs and large corporations is critical to the success of market economies. The contributors include the editors and Robert M. Solow, Kenneth J. Arrow, Michael M. Weinstein, Douglass C. North, Barry R. Weingast, Ying Lowrey, Nathan Rosenberg, Melissa A. Schilling, Corey Phelps, Sylvia Nasar, Boyan Jovanovic, Peter L. Rousseau, Edward N. Wolff, Deepak Somaya, David J. Teece, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Yochanan Shachmurove, Ralph E. Gomory, Jonathan Eaton, Samuel S. Kortum, Alan S. Blinder, Robert J. Shiller, Burton G. Malkiel, and Edmund S. Phelps.

American Marconi Corporation. --- Athanasoulis, Stefano. --- Bergson, Henri. --- Blanchard, Thomas. --- Brush Electric Company. --- Burlington and Quincy Railroad. --- Carothers, Wallace. --- Cisco Systems. --- Cromwell, Oliver. --- DiCaprio, Leonardo. --- Digital. --- Eaton, Jonathan. --- Economides, Nicholas. --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo. --- Fleming, Alexander. --- Genentech. --- Gomory, Ralph E. --- Hamilton, Alexander. --- Hobbes, Thomas. --- Index of Economic Freedom. --- Intel Corporation. --- James, William. --- Jansky, Karl. --- Jovanovic, Boyan. --- Keller, Wolfgang. --- Keynes, John Maynard. --- Langmuir, Irving. --- Lawrence, Andrew. --- Leonardo da Vinci. --- Lowrey, Ying. --- Mao Zedong. --- Marx, Karl. --- Mauro, Paolo. --- Mowery, David. --- Nasar, Sylvia. --- National Science Foundation. --- Nordhaus, William. --- Oak Park, Illinois. --- Panofsky, Wolfgang. --- Pasteur, Louis. --- aggregative growth theory. --- antitrust policy. --- civil service examinations. --- corporatism. --- democracy. --- eBay. --- engineering disciplines. --- exact boundary theorem. --- exogenous growth models. --- expropriation, governmental. --- intellectual property. --- knowledge spillovers. --- lasers. --- networks: alliance. --- new growth economics. --- optimal portfolio of innovations. --- patent agents.