Product Description: The essays in this volume demonstrate the power of using history to improve our understanding of the economic and social challenges of the present and future. A distinguished group of authors provide new perspectives on the dynamics of economic growth, the challenges of economic and political transitions, and the relationships between economic growth, institutional development and individual well-being in mature industrial societies...read more

Product Description: For almost as long as computers have been used in business, people have speculated about their effect on economic productivity. If computers can do certain things faster, and less expensively than people, the standard argument runs, replacing employees with computers will speed business up at the same time as reducing costs...read more