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		<title><![CDATA[Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey at the London School of Economics]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5554/is_200803/ai_n25310237]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[To: NATIONAL EDITORS To: NATIONAL EDITORS ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Student's Companion to Social Policy, 3rd Edition Features Thoroughly Updated Contributions That Reflect Recent Policy Changes and Innovations]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2008_Feb_14/ai_n24261474]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c82828) has announced the addition of The Student's Companion to Social Policy, 3rd Edition to their offering.  Thoroughly updated to reflect policy changes and innovations, the third edition of The Student's Companion to Social Policy continues to provide students with the most comprehensive...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[London School of Economics Adds Wimba Solutions]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200708/ai_n19429375]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Wimba, the education technology company that helps people teach people, today announced that the London School of Economics LSE has significantly expanded its use of Wimba technologies to further enhance the collaborative nature of the school's course management system/virtual learning environment (CMS/VLE) -- Moodle. ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Long-Term Consequences Of Regional Specialization]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314030]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Economists have long debated whether an abundance of natural resources adversely affects long term economic performance. Focusing on economic channels discussed in the literature, the author investigates whether resource abundance slows industrialization or human capital accumulation, or increases inequality. An author examines these channels using geological variation in oil abundance...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Firms In International Trade]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314026]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities; economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences present a challenge to standard trade models and shows how...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Entry And Asymmetric Lobbying: Why Governments Pick Losers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314125]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Governments frequently intervene to support domestic industries, but a surprising amount of this support goes to ailing sectors. This is explained with a lobbying model that allows for entry and sunk costs. Specifically, policy is influenced by pressure groups that incur lobbying expenses to create rents. In expanding industries, entry...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lindsay Aspegren; General partner North Coast Technology Investors L.P.(Business Lives)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5251/is_200704/ai_n20119661]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Tom Henderso    Lindsay Aspegren, 44, attended Yale, the Harvard Business School  and the London School of Economics.    Before moving to Ann Arbor to found venture-capital firm North  Coast in 1999 - his wife, Lucy, an attorney in Palo Alto, Calif., wanted...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Identity Policy: Risks & Rewards]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=316344]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The United States has initiated a number of actions and activities that have led to an increased focus on identity. Though this is an emergent area of interest, there have been a number of earlier activities and initiatives throughout the world that now act as the building blocks for current...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economics And Politics Of Alternative Institutional Reforms]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314136]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper compares the economic consequences and political feasibility of reforms aimed at reducing barriers to entry deregulation and improving contractual enforcement legal reform. Deregulation fosters entry, thereby increasing the number of firms entrepreneurship and the average quality of management meritocracy. Legal reform also reduces financial constraints on entry, but...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Plant Size-Place Effect: Agglomeration And Monopsony In Labour Markets]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314244]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper shows, using data from both the US and the UK, that average plant size is larger in denser markets. However, many popular theories of agglomeration - spillovers, cost advantages and improved match quality - predict that establishments should be smaller in cities. The paper proposes a theory based...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The State, Democracy And The Limits Of New Public Management]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=316919]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The point of departure of our analysis on the evolving role of the state in contemporary society is offered by the innovations introduced by e-government within the democratic, administrative and bureaucratic processes of the modern state. A vast literature on this topic presents e-government as a great opportunity to innovate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Effect Of Trade On The Demand For Skill - Evidence From The Interstate Highway System]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313886]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System provides a unique policy experiment, which the author uses to identify the effect of reducing trade...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Theory Of Organizational Information Services]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=313918]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Organizational use of Information Technology IT is increasingly characterized as 'Services' rather than 'Systems' to more accurately reflect IT's impact on organizational practices. However, frameworks that can help us understand assess, and design information services in organizational contexts are lacked. This paper combines general notions of task, information, and service,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Shifts In Economic Geography And Their Causes]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314133]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper analyses some of the forces that are changing the spatial distribution of activity in the world economy. It draws on the 'New economic geography' literature to argue the importance of increasing returns to scale and cumulative causation processes in shaping the productivity and comparative advantage of different regions....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[An R&D-Based Model Of Multi-Sector Growth]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314212]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The authors have developed a multi-sector general equilibrium model in which productivity growth is driven by the production of sector-specific knowledge. In the model, long run differences is found in total factor productivity growth across sectors are independent of the parameters of the knowledge production function except for one, which...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Agglomeration Economies And The Location Of Foreign Direct Investment]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314033]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Romania experienced a large inflow of FDI Foreign Direct Investment after the revolution in 1989. This was exploited in order to study the importance of agglomeration economies for the location of FDI. Using a conditional logit setup, it was found that external economies from industry-specific foreign agglomeration and service agglomeration...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What Is Social Entrepreneurship Really About?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=282492]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Social entrepreneurship is a growth area, both in practice and in academic circles. Its value is generally assumed to be the contribution that social entrepreneurs can make to solving pressing and intractable social problems. It is argued here that this is an overly deterministic and simplistic way of understanding the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Does Global Size Matter For Productivity Of MNEs?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=317241]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Previous research has shown that MultiNationals MNEs and in particular US-owned plants, are more productive than domestic ones. Existing evidence for the UK has shown that this US advantage is explained by US MNES picking the best plants to takeover and by US owned plants getting higher returns from ICT...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Public Policy, Early-Stage Financing, And Firm Growth In New Industries]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=314236]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Does Europe have too few fast-growing companies in new (hi-tech) industries compared to the US? And if so, why? While Europe has seen a vast increase in early-stage financing, financiers with specific industry expertise seem to be still relatively scarce. This may engender a serious information gap between entrepreneurs and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Human Resources, The Labour Market And Economic Performance]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=312559]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Siting the Lab in the CEP Centre for Economic Performance allows the planned work to draw on the expertise and knowledge of the labour market derived from the Centre's previous years of research. Author now turn to an overview of the main questions tackled by CEP in this period and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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