Technology, Globalisation and Economic Performance

Book Overview

Technological innovation is said to be breaking down borders. The internet, the explosion of globalised financial markets, increased foreign direct investment by transnational corporations - all are portrayed as evidence of a global market in which the nation state is little more than an anachronism. Yet some economies have proved more innovative and dynamic than others, and there seems no reason to believe that these differences in national economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521556422
• ISBN13: 9780521556422
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"