Could the existing level of government services by provided at a lower cost? This study presents a convincing argument for incentive contracts as a means to this end. In a typical market economy, payments from the government to firms account for about one-half of government spending (excluding...

Creative destruction “revolutionises the economic structure from within ”, Joseph Schumpeter famously said, “incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one”. Innovation in business – bringing new goods, new markets, new methods of production, new ways of organising...