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Peer-to-Peer Video
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks allow individuals to share digital content files in real time. They facilitate communication and promote community without hierarchy or strict control. This book applies economic principles to analyze and understand the P2P phenomenon. It also provides numerous contemporary examples from the US and around the world to shed light on the implications of P2P as a mass medium, considering such issues as pricing, licensing, security, and regulation.
Sectoral Systems of Innovation
This volume provides a novel way of examining innovation in sectors by proposing the framework of sectoral systems of innovation. It analyses the innovation process, the factors affecting innovation, the changing boundaries and transformation of sectors, and the determinants of the innovation performance of firms and countries in different sectors.
International Trade Policy and European Industry
Trade policy has played a vital role in the decline of European electronics business. The events that resulted in the disappearance of the European television industry, of a European and Japanese video recorder format and of other European consumer electronics are directly related to market structures in exporting countries and business practices. In this book, factual business data shows and economic models explain how restrictive trade practices result in elimination of efficient competitors in export markets. It deals with the memorable case how a videocassette recorder format was established by dumping and how politics enabled it. An innovative tariff increase for CD players was invalida...
Microelectronics and Society
Through automation and miniaturisation, microelectronics has vast potential for thrusting society into a new phase. It promises to revolutionise the information handling aspects of our lives. But to gain maximum benefit from this breakthrough, microelectronics must be harnessed to society's needs. To help this process a multidisciplinary group of authors has prepared a report to the Club of Rome on the likely impact of microelectronics on our futures
OECD Forum 2004 Forum Highlights
This brochure presents highlights from OECD Forum 2004. It includes texts of keynote speeches and summaries of each session.
OECD Forum 2003 Forum Highlights
This brochure presents the highlights from OECD Forum 2003. It includes texts of the keynote speeches, summaries of the sessions and photos.
Policy-Making in the European Union
Laura Cram takes a fresh view at attempts to conceptualize the process of European integration. Her book explores the impact of the day to day work of policy maker, interest groups and bureaucrats in influencing the environment in which European Treaty formulation and ratification are taken. She sheds new light on the wide range of policy areas in which institutions such as the Commission of the European Union and the European Court of Justice have succeded in expanding the scope of EU competence despite national government opposition.
Loving and Leaving Washington
A civil service official reflects on his employment in Washington D.C., comparing his earlier stint before 2001 with his recent return in which he describes the increased partisanship, erosion of public trust, and loss of dedication by the current generation. --Publisher's description.
Governments & Corporations in a Shrinking World
SCOTT (copy 1): from the John Holmes Library collection.
