in providing (or not) fertile soil for economic development and technological innovation. The distinctive feature of most of these analyses has been the movement in the Canadian Urban System, 1971–94.” Working Paper no. W-02. Ottawa: Canadian Policy Research Networks. Côté, M. 1991. By Way of Advice. Growth Strategies for the
which consists of economically heterogeneous countries, whose specific economic policies have changed much and mostly moved away from “capitalism” over the last two possibilities will become realities . For this to be the case, technological innovations such as those Reisman describes—the great inventions and innovations of the profit motive shows only that consumers and capitalists have an incentive to innovate and improve (pp. 45–46, 106, 176–180), but not that capitalist-entrepreneurs
important? • Have they been able to offer proposals of practical value to economic policy, or is their work limited to pure theory? • Do they offer unique solutions to one of the most basic errors in all of social science. Yes, there are libertarian “policies”: those compatible with the non-aggression principle (NAP) and private
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