The Lanuage of business and iT
posted by Dr Brian Morris at 9:18 pm
Monday, November 27, 2006
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2 Comments:
Konrad have you waded through the porn and direct selling to get here? If so well done.
For you have touched on an important area the World of Ideas and The World of Things. William Arthur introduces this very important dichotomy in his 1996 paper "Increasing Returns and the New World of Business" (More and similar details below. The paper is very readable.
Brian
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Articles on Increasing Returns
Increasing Returns and the New World of Business - group of 5 »
WB Arthur - Harvard Business Review, 1996 - santafe.edu
Page 1. Appeared in Harvard Business Review, July-Aug.,1996 Increasing Returns and
the New World of Business by W. Brian Arthur * April 27, 1996 ...
Cited by 478 - Related Articles - View as HTML - Web Search - BL Direct
Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth - group of 2 »
PM Romer - The Journal of Political Economy, 1986 - ideas.repec.org
... Income distribution, safety nets, micro-credit. 1862, World Bank [Downloadable!]. ...
"A new approach for analysing ... "External increasing returns, short-lived agents ...
Cited by 3958 - Related Articles - Cached - Web Search
[BOOK] Increasing Returns and Economic Geography - group of 7 »
P Krugman - 1990 - ideas.repec.org
... The Seamless World: A Spatial ... Discussion Papers 0067, University of New South Wales ...
Increasing Returns, Multinationals and the Geography of Free Trade Agreements ...
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General Books on Searching
Google/Web books
Vise, David (2005) The Google Story, Macmillan, London, 2005
Batelle, John (2005) The Search, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, London, 2005
Anderson, Chris (2006) The Long Tail, Random House, London, 2006
Goldsmith, Jack and Wu, Tim (2006) Who Controls the Internet? Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006.
Business books
Kelly, Kevin (1998) New Rules for the New Economy, Viking Penguin, London, 1998
Surowiecki, James (2005) The Wisdom of Crowds, Abacus Books, London, 2005
Handy, Charles (1996) Beyond Certainty, Arrow Books, London, 1996 [ Particularly Chapter 4 “What is a company for?”. This was reproduced in the Harvard Business Review – check it out with Google scholar – and is an answer that supports in a more gentle way Bakus thesis as expressed in “The Corporation” It introduces and supports the idea of “stakeholders” in a company, as well as shareholders.]
Handy, Charles (1988) Understanding Organisations (3rd edn.), Penguin, London, 1988
Rahn, Richard (1999) The End of Money, Discovery Institute, Seattle, WA. [This text is situated in the digital age yet refers to famous economists and politicians in the past.]
Does anyone have further reading on these areas?
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