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This article considers recent 'end of history' and 'end of nature' hypotheses in the context of new scientific and socioeconomic paradigms, and seeks a broader understanding of the nature of information society. Through a review of recent work on future socioeconomic and scientific and technological developments, the conservationist view is rejected in favour of 'wise design and governance of evolution'. Planning and forecasting have a central role in this process. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

The shift from a centrally planned socialist economy to a market-driven economy initiated by the Chinese government in the 1970s marked the beginning of one of the most significant economic [...]

J.N. BARTLETT, (London: Athlone, 1997. Pp.xii + 208; illus. ISBN 0485 1 1514X, £32). In 1796 Charles Davidson, a millwright and son of an Aberdeenshire dyer, went into partnership with [...]

KATHARINE BLIGH, (London: The Stationery Office, 1997. Pp.xiii + 149. ISBN 0 10 850673 8, £45). William Aitken, better known by his title as (1st) Lord Beaverbrook, was one of [...]

THIS PAPER LOOKS EXCLUSIVELY AT MICRO enterprises, those with less than ten employees. Generally, studies of the issues addressed by this paper have not focussed on micro firms, and even [...]

The New Zealand Treasury working papers were inadvertently omitted from the December 2000 issue of New Zealand Economic Papers. New Zealand Treasury Working Papers 00/26 Conserving Biodiversity - Institutions, Policies [...]

These two volumes contain 50 papers by Alan M. Rugman, Professor of International Business at the University of Toronto, which have been published over the last 20 years (1975-95) in [...]

Despite the absence of a formal organisation or society, Canadian business historians do hold occasional meetings. The first volume of Canadian Papers in Business History was based on papers given [...]

The article assesses the various accounts, which explain the disappointing outcomes thus far of civil society participation in the design and implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRPS) in aid receiving countries. A bleak future for PRSP participation and argues that the project's failure may increase the crisis of legitimacy faced by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, the very crisis that led to the launch of the PRSP initiative is presented.

This study harks back to a debate that was popular amongst some economic historians in the 1960s and early 1970s - the comparative performance of UK and American industry in [...]

Byline: Carlo Zaghi, Marcelo Enrique Conti, Gaetano Cecchetti The ever-growing attention to the environmental risk assessment of chemical substances has had considerable repercussions in the recent agreements reached within the European Union and on the international stage. In the conclusions on the European Commission's White Paper Strategy for a Future Chemicals Policy, the Council of the European Union recently referred to the need to include persistent, bio-accumulative and toxic substances (PBT) and very persistent and very bio-accumulative substances (VPVB) among the chemicals which must be subject to authorisation, as soon as the necessary criteria for identifying them have been defined. On 23 May 2001, a few days before the adoption of the Council's conclusions to the White Paper, over 100 national Governments signed the international Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs), which provides for a common commitment at global level and fixed criteria for identifying new POPs apart from those already known. In this work, the scenarios described by the White Paper are examined, with particular reference to the problems of defining criteria for identifying PBT and VPVB substances, in the light of the criteria already defined for POPs by the Stockholm Convention.

As the sub-title implies, this study attempts to combine two themes: an explanatory account of modern German history and the role of Hamburg and its leading businessmen in it. Clearly, [...]

Samuel Gompers was a (and, for much of the time, the) major moderate figure in the American labour movement for nearly four decades from the late 1880s. This volume deals [...]

Richard Wilson (2000), Bank Finance: The Results of an IoD Questionnaire, IoD `Policy Paper, London, Institute of Directors, January, pp19, 5.00 £. POLITICIANS AND OTHERS FREQUENTLY argue that a major [...]

The changes that globalization has brought about in the ethics of Sweden are presented. Special focus is on the conflicts and clashes that can be the consequence of an encounter between the old values and the new norms resulting from mergers of companies from different companies.

This article summarises research papers for policy makers and managers. Topics include pay-tv competition, regulatory depreciation, innovative performance, consumer stockpiling, industry regulators, human resources in competitive advantage, corporate governance, diversification, fair process, and other topics.

THIS PAPER REPORTS ON RESEARCH commissioned by the UK's DTI from the ESRC Centre for Business Research of the University of Cambridge, in association with Public and Corporate Economic Consultants. [...]

HOW SMALL BUSINESSES ARTICULATE with the wider economy has generated a substantial literature though the debate so far has not achieved much consensus. This recent paper adds to the discussion [...]

PRIMARY HEALTH services are facing their biggest shake up since the NHS began. The coalition's white paper, Liberating the NHS, is a blueprint for dismantling primary care trusts (PCTs) and [...]

ENCOURAGING PATIENTS to express themselves through writing sounds complicated and time-consuming, but according to Bridget Shea and Tess Hudson, who launched Pen & Tonic in 2006 to promote the health [...]

COLOMBIA PRESERVES A PAPER CHAIN In Colombia, a paper company is exploiting the rainforest much like the aboriginals, who took their food and shelter from the forests without destroying them. [...]

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2006.09.007 Byline: Eric Taillard Author Affiliation: HEIG-VD, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, 1, Route de Cheseaux, Case postale CH-1401 Yverdon-Les-Bains, Switzerland

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2005.08.011 Byline: J.B.G. Frenk Abstract: In this technical note, we give a short proof based on some standard results in convex analysis of some important characterization results listed in Theorems 3 and 4 of Benson [Benson, H.P., 2006. Fractional programming with convex quadratic forms and functions. European Journal of Operational Research]. Actually our result is slightly more general since we do not specify the nonempty convex set X. For clarity we use the same notation for the different equivalent optimization problems as done in Benson (2006). Author Affiliation: Econometric Institute, Erasmus University, P.O. Box 1738, 3000DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands Article History: Received 11 February 2005; Accepted 3 August 2005

Convex analysis of quadratic equations, using fractional programming, is discussed.

Litigation has been the driving force in raising the profile of the tobacco issue in the United States to unprecedented heights. Both a new round of private class action suits [...]

Victoria was taken from her home by her great aunt to have a better life, including a good education in Europe, thus bringing great importance to her family in the [...]

This paper develops an interpretation of the Asian meltdown focused on moral hazard as the common source of overinvestment, excessive external borrowing, and current account deficits. To the extent that foreign creditors are willing to lend to domestic agents against future bail-out revenue from the government, unprofitable projects and cash shortfalls are re-financed through external borrowing. While public deficits need not be high before a crisis, the eventual refusal of foreign creditors to refinance the country's cumulative losses forces the government to step in and guarantee the outstanding stock of external liabilities. To satisfy solvency, the government must then undertake appropriate domestic fiscal reforms, possibly involving recourse to seigniorage revenues. Expectations of inflationary financing thus cause a collapse of the currency and anticipate the event of a financial crisis. Keywords: Moral hazard: Balance of payment crisis; International lending; Speculative attacks:, Asia