294 research outputs found
Philip Mirowski, The Birth of the Business Cycle
No full textThe Birth of the Business Cycle results from a 1979 PhD dissertation by Philip Mirowski, a “lumbering and unwieldy manuscript” (according to the 1985 preface by the author), first revised in 1980 and discretely published in 1985 by Garland Publishing. Since then it could be found in some libraries but certainly not everywhere. Thirty years passed and it is now available for a larger public. Yet, Routledge preferred to print it as a facsimile of the original edition, failing to correct the mis..
00-01 "Still Dead After All These Years: Interpreting the Failure of General Equilibrium Theory."
No full textCompetition through Technical Progress
No full textThe relationship between technical progress and price competition is a controversial issue in economics. This paper highlights the fact that investment in technical progress is an authentic type of competition which benefits the consumers rather than the industry. This type of competition exists when the potential for technical progress, which can be incorporated by firms through investment, is high enough. Competition is, in fact, made up of two components: A static one which is known as price or quantity competition and a dynamic one, the Technical Progress competition which also contribute to reduce prices and increase quantities for consumers. Consequently, the economic factors that increase a firm's margin do not have to be viewed as the consumers' enemy, but rather as an ally, under specific conditions, because they allow higher investments in new technology by which firms increase their capacities and attract higher demand from consumers. This paper also underlines that, for a mature market, the maximum Consumer Surplus as well as Social Welfare are attained by a constant level of combined competition which is only dependent on the size of the market and the number of firms. The level of combined competition can be defined as the product of the static and the dynamic level of competition. As a consequence, the higher the potential of technical progress is, the lower the level of static competition must be in order to reach the maximum level of Consumer Surplus and Social Welfare. --Investment,Competition,Technical Progress,Dynamic Competition
The Commercialization of Science and the Response of STS
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Metodologia para o estudo do processo decisório de empresas através da identificação do ciclo de vida
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção.Este trabalho tem como objetivo qualificar o processo de tomadas e implantação de decisões dentro das empresas, através de estudo da fase de ciclo de vida em que estas se encontram. As empresas estão condicionadas a tomar determinadas decisões, dependendo da sua situação perante o mercado. As decisões de uma empresa que quer crescer são diferentes, daquela que está em pleno vigor e tem que se manter em harmonia, tanto externa como internamente. A metodologia é de simples aplicação e baseia-se em observações de fatos e históricos das empresas. Na aplicação prática, procedeu-se um estudo de caso numa empresa de médio porte, do ramo de telecomunicações. A pesquisa mostra um breve relato histórico e comentários dos fatos que determinam a identificação com a Fase do Ciclo de Vida. Finalmente, faz-se referências, recomendações e sugestões para que se consiga aplicar esta metodologia em empresas de qualquer porte
Birth and Early History of Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics
No full textDesde comienzos de los ’80, la elaboración de modelos no lineales se está volviendo una metodología cada vez más popular en economía. Sin embargo, no es tan novedosa como muchos investigadores parecen creer. Antes de que el enfoque lineal dominara a la teoría económica alrededor de los ’50, muchos economistas se encontraban comprometidos con el desarrollo de modelos no lineales, especialmente durante el período 1930-1950. El principal objetivo de este ensayo es proporcionar una revisión sistemática de los desarrollos pioneros en dinámica no lineal en economía, desde el modelo original de impulso y propagación de Frisch en 1933, hasta la formalización de Goodwin del ciclo límite en 1951. Since the 1980s, nonlinear dynamic modelling is becoming a popular methodology in economics. However, it is not as new as many researchers seem to believe. Before the linear approach dominated economic theory around the 1950s, many economists were actively involved in the development of nonlinear models, this tendency being particularly strong during the period 1930-1950. The main objective of this essay is to offer a systematic and comprehensive survey of the early developments in nonlinear dynamics in economics, ranging form Frisch’s original impulse and propagation model in 1933, to Goodwin’s formalisation of the limit cycle in 1951.modelos no lineales, ciclos económicos, macrodinámica, fluctuaciones endógenas/exógenas, historia del pensamiento 1930-1950, nonlinear modelling, economic cycles, macrodynamics, endogeneous/exogenous fluctuations, history of thought 1930-1950
Die Bedeutung eines Dollars: Erhaltungssätze und die gesellschaftliche Theorie des Werts in der Ökonomie
No full textThe article demonstrates that both the classical and the neoclassical theory of value are a transformation of conservation principles of the Physics of their time into Economics. Instead of basing value on nature, the author tries to emphasize a social theory of value that connects to early American institutionalism, which presents value as a contingent and socially constructed phenomenon
Supreme Court IP Review - Session 2: Panel
No full textModerator and panel members discuss Limelight Networks v. Akamai Technologies and Medtronic v. Mirowski Family Ventures, LLC during the second session at the fifth annual Supreme Court IP Review (SCIPR) conference. L-R: Grantland Drutchas, J.C. Rozendaal, Kellogg Huber Hansen PLLC; Thomas Saunders, WilmerHale LLP; Cynthia Ho, Loyola University Chicago School of Law; Timothy Holbrook, Emory University School of Law.https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/events_2014/1109/thumbnail.jp
ONCE AGAIN ON LIMESTONES REINFORCED WITH A “STABLE SILICA” TECHNIQUE
No full textNos 3 — 4 of the 1981 edition of “Ochrona Zabytkow” (pp. 172—180) contained an article by Ryszard Mirowski entitled
“Properties of Pinczow Limestone Reinforced with a “Stable
Silica” Technique”. The article quoted results of studies on
samples of limestone hardened by means of the method recommended
by Zdzisław Bąkowski. As can be seen form the
publication, results obtained were negative. Finding the preservation
of stone monuments an important problem, the author
of the present article decided to give a few comments to
accomplish the above-mentioned paper.
Dr Z. Bąkowski elaborated a method to preserve stone by
employing “stable silica” to sandstone monuments. The first
objects on which the method was applied came from Faras,
i.e. the Nubia sandstone was the subject of preservation.
Positive results were obtained. Then objects from magma
rocks were presered and also in that case the technique gave
good results.
Of utmost significance are results of the studies published by
R. Mirowski confirming the fact that multi-directional mineralogical-
petrographic studies must be made prior to the conservation
of carbonate objects, which would allow for the use
of various preservation techniques. This procedure has been
employed by Dr Z. Bąkowski with a great ssuccess in the
recent years
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