Voluntary non-commercial Internet-based distributed computing ('social sharing' for short) is an open source activity that is emerging as a distinct mode of resource allocation and economic production. This paper presents an exploratory cross-country analysis of factors determining the output of...

The measurement of natural capital and its management during the economic development process are important aspects of the capital approach to sustainable development. This paper explores whether natural capital per capita is correlated with life satisfaction across fifty-eight developed and...

Books reviewed: Richard A. McGowan, Government and the Transformation of the Gaming Industry Phyllis Deanwe, The Life and Times of J. Neville Keynes: A Beacon in the Tempest Craig Freedman, Economic Reform in Japan: Can the Japanese Change? William Thomson, A Guide for the Young Economist:...

This paper explores the impacts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on economic growth in New Zealand. Using an extended industry-level growth accounting model to analyse the proximate sources of growth in per capita output, we focus on differences in total factor productivity...