Book Reviews : Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions. By JOHN S. HAMMOND, RALPH L. KEENEY, and HOWARD RAIFFA. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1999, 272 pages, hardcover: $22.50

David Audretsch of Indiana University reviews “Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed--And What to Do About It” by Josh Lerner,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Explores the ways governments have supported entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in various times and places, and considers how public ventures and initiatives can be implemented to avoid common pitfalls. Discusses a look backwards; why policymakers should care; things getting more complicated; the neglected art of setting the table; how governments go wrong--bad designs; how governments go wrong--bad implementation; the special challenges of sovereign funds; and lessons and pitfalls. Lerner is Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. Index.”

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Explorations in Media Ecology ◽

10.1386/eme.18.1-2.117_5 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (1-2) ◽

pp. 117-128

Author(s):

James C. Morrison

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Information Technology ◽

Competitive Advantage ◽

Business School ◽

The Internet ◽

Harvard Business School ◽

The World

Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations, Nicholas Carr (2016) New York: W. W. Norton, 360 pp., ISBN 978-0-39325-454-9, h/bk, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-39335-474-4, p/bk, $16.95 The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us, Nicholas Carr (2015) New York: W. W. Norton, 288 pp., ISBN 978-0-39335-163-7, p/bk, $16.95 The Glass Cage: Automation and Us, Nicholas Carr (2014) New York: W. W. Norton, 288 pp., ISBN 978-0-39324-076-4, h/bk, $26.95 The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr (2010) New York: W. W. Norton, 288 pp., ISBN 978-0-39307-222-8, h/bk, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-39333-975-8, p/bk, $15.95 The Big Switch; Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, Nicholas Carr (2008) New York: W. W. Norton, 224 pp., ISBN 978-0-39306-228-1, h/bk, $26.95, ISBN 978-0-39334-522-3, p/bk, $16.95 Does IT Matter?: Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, Nicholas G. Carr (2004) Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 193 pp., ISBN 978-1-59139-444-9, h/bk, $26.95

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Journal of Economic Literature ◽

10.1257/jel.49.4.1230.r23 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 49 (4) ◽

pp. 1299-1303

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Business School ◽

Political History ◽

Business Administration ◽

Associate Professor ◽

University Of California ◽

Panama Canal ◽

Harvard Business School ◽

History Of

Valerie A. Ramey of University of California, San Diego and NBER reviews “The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal” by Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu. The EconLit abstract of the reviewed work begins, “Chronicles the economic and political history of the Panama Canal from the origins of the idea in sixteenth-century Spain to the present day. Discusses an introduction to the Ditch; before the Ditch; preparing the Ditch; digging the Ditch; crossing the Ditch; passed by the Ditch; sliding into irrelevancy; ditching the Ditch; and concluding the Ditch. Maurer is Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Yu is an economic historian and private consultant. Index.”

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