US economist Hyman Minsky jokingly used to claim that there are as many varieties of capitalism as Heinz has pickles, that is 57 varieties (Minsky 1991). In this paper we argue that economic integration provides a similar analytical problem: economic integration can take many forms, and some are...

This paper argues that the international financial crisis is just the last in a series of economic calamities produced by a type of theory that converted the economics profession from a study of real world phenomena into what in the end became mathematized ideology. While the crises themselves...

"As we look over the country today we see two classes of people. The excessively rich and the abject poor, and between them is a gulf ever deepening, ever widening, and the ranks of the poor are continually being recruited from a third class, the well-to-do, which class is rapidly disappearing...

The debate around the effects of globalization is both widening and deepening. While some nations, like India and China – countries that have consciously built a manufacturing sector for five decades – come across as winners, a large number of smaller Third World nations seem to lose out...

When it was agreed to move Oslo's main airport North of the city, the area of the previous airport Fornebu - on a peninsula close to the city itself - was freed for alternative uses. Norsk Investorforum (Norwegian Investor Forum) was commissioned by the government entity in charge (Statsbygg) to...

This report, commissioned by the Norwegian Farmers' Association (Norges Bondelag) and Norway's Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, takes a long term view of the theoretical and practical relationships between rural industries - agriculture and forestry - and urban industries,...

This paper by Erik Reinert and Egbert van de Schootbrugge was commissioned by the Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. Based on Schumpeterian analysis, the paper discusses the theoretical relationships between innovation and geography in general, and more specifically...

This lengthy report is the result of a research project originally started by attempting to explain why the Saami reindeer herders in Norway - the last aboriginal tribe in Western Europe - in spite of having a monopoly on the production of reindeer meat, traditionally a luxury food item in...

This paper discusses the forces behind the rise of the service sector - the tertiary sector - in modern economies, and examines the different roles played by the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors in the process of economic growth.

Even a casual observer of the practice and science of management will not fail to notice how a continuous flow of new concepts are born, become fashionable, and then disappear from management jargon. A recent article in Financial Times (1, p. 10) suggests the term ’corporate grafitti’ - or...