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The Mismeasure of Technology
"... governments promote schooling, free trade, property rights, social programs, and the Internet, and yet their countries’ economies remain stuck. If technology is just devices and ideas, what is holding them back?
The problem is that a key component of technology is knowhow, which is an ability to perform a task. And knowhow, unlike devices and ideas, neither involves nor can be acquired through comprehension....
Technology has trouble diffusing because much of it requires knowhow, which is an ability to recognize patterns and respond with effective actions.
Read more at http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ricardo-hausmann-explains-why-technological-diffusion-does-not-occur-according-to-economic-theory#90fdEP66wAAVqzDD.99
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Produtividade Eu
technology has distorted productivity measurements to the point where the government agencies tasked with determining it can no longer get an accurate number. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/productivity-measures-trailing-technology-2015-8#ixzz3jaSZgL7I...
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Os Problemas De Medir Pobreza
Jomo Kwame Sundaram is Assistant Director General at the Economic and Social Development Department of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome.
PPP conversions have little significance for some countries, most notably China. Rather...
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Teorias Da Grande Estagnação
Kenneth Rogoff Innovation Crisis or Financial Crisis? CAMBRIDGE – As one year of sluggish growth spills into the next, there is growing debate about what to expect over the coming decades. Was the global financial crisis a harsh but transitory setback...
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O Estado De Bem-estar E Inovação
Cant We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric
Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World
Daron Acemoglu
MIT
James A. Robinson
Harvard
Thierry Verdier
Paris School of Economics
September 2012.
Abstract
Because of their more limited...
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Como surgem os direitos de propriedade?
Belo paper do grande Herschel Grossman (pdf): Property Rights under Anarchy
Resumo: Traditionally, general-equilibrium models have taken effective property rights to be given and have been concerned only with...
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