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Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World

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Winner of Balsillie Prize for Public Policy Winner of Donner Prize A Summer Book of 2021, Financial Times Longlisted Financial Times and McKinsey Best Business Book of the Year A challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community. Across the world, cities and regions have wasted trillions of dollars on blindly copying the Silicon ... Read more

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Winner of Balsillie Prize for Public Policy Winner of Donner Prize A Summer Book of 2021, Financial Times Longlisted Financial Times and McKinsey Best Business Book of the Year A challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community. Across the world, cities and regions have wasted trillions of dollars on blindly copying the Silicon
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The Run of the Red Queen

Government, Innovation, Globalization, and Economic Growth in China

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"An important book. It should make both Chinese bureaucrats and Western pundits think twice before pronouncing on China's 'innovation deficit.'" —Schumpeter, The EconomistWinner of the Susan Strange Best Book Award, as given by the British International Studies AssociationFew observers are unimpressed by the economic ambition of China or by the nation's remarkable rate of growth. But what does ... Read more

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Can Wealthy Nations Stay Rich in the Twenty-First Century?

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Given the powerfully negative and ongoing impact of the Great Recession on western economies, the question of whether historically wealthy nations--the US, Western European countries, Japan--can stay wealthy has become an overriding concern for virtually every interested observer. Can their middle classes remain comfortable as more and more good and technically jobs disappear to other parts of the ... Read more

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Given the powerfully negative and ongoing impact of the Great Recession on western economies, the question of whether historically wealthy nations--the US, Western European countries, Japan--can stay wealthy has become an overriding concern for virtually every interested observer. Can their middle classes remain comfortable as more and more good and technically jobs disappear to other parts of the
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