Preface -- Introduction to and Summary of Economic Growth: Perspectives on New Theory and Policy -- Decelerating Agricultural Society: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives -- Accelerating Economic Growth in Industrial Societies: The Process of Expansive Reproduction -- Determinants of...

A crucial issue in the era of globalisation and internationalization, is whether the relationship between investment and finance is beneficial to growth and development. Received wisdom is that Research and Development is essential not only for maintaining productivity, but also for competing in...

Edwin Mansfield was a research pioneer into the economics of R and D and technological change. As appreciation and remembrance for his scholarly contributions, eminent scholars have contributed original papers for this edited volume. The authors have followed the 'Mansfieldian' approach of...

Plenary Article -- Improving Hurricane Prediction Through Innovative Global Modeling -- Networks and Graphs -- A Branch-And-Price Approach for Graph Multi-Coloring -- A Genetic Algorithm for Solving the Euclidean Non-Uniform Steiner Tree Problem -- Optimization -- Cardinality and the Simplex...