The purpose of this paper is to deal with questions of instability and economic crisis, deriving theoretical arguments from Schumpeter’s works and presenting relevant empirical evidence for the case of the US economy by sector of economic activity in the time period 1957-2006, just before the...

Basic innovations and their diffusion, the expansion or contraction of the level of economic activity and the volume of international trade, rising sovereign debts and their defaults, conflicts and the outbreak of wars, are some of the major phenomena appearing during the downswing or upswing...

The author argues that although the collapse of the Doha “Development” Round in early summer of 2006 was triggered by the refusal of the United States to agree to the reduction of the ceiling on the amount of domestic subsidies paid to the US farmers, there were some fundamental reasons...

Technology such as the Internet is becoming an important ingredient for economic and socialadvancement. There is a growing national concern about the ability of all segments of theAmerican society to be able to access and benefit from advanced telecommunications services.In this research we...

The Internet is the latest in a long succession of communication technologies. The goal of thiswork is to draw lessons from the evolution of all these services. Little attention is paid to technologyas such, since that has changed radically many times. Instead, the stress is on the steady growth...

This paper describes a life cycle analysis system (LCAS) developed to support US Department of Energy (DOE) decision-making regarding deactivation and decommissioning (D and D), pollution prevention (P2), and asset recovery, and its deployment to analyze the disposition of facilities and capital...