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Ahead of the ten year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy that helped kickstart a global financial crisis, The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster author Laurence M. Ball joins Cambridge University Press Senior Marketing Executive Ellena Moriarty to discuss the mistakes made that allowed it to happen and what we've learned in the ensuing decade.
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To explore the issues surrounding energy flow and consumption in the modern day, you must first understand the basic science of energy. Washington Taylor and Robert L. Jaffe are Professors of Physics at MIT, and have written a textbook on the topic.
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The incandescent lamps was the killer application of the electrification. Just a couple of years ago we decided to say goodbye to this lighting workhorse. A first assumed successor – the CFL – was not embraced by consumers. Nevertheless it pioneered the transition to energy-efficient lighting. And now the LED lamp takes over. This article […]
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In his fourth instalment, Huub Ehlhardt, co-author of On the Origin of Products, discusses the origins of the smartphone.
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In his third post, Huub Ehlhardt, co-author of On the Origin of Products, discusses the origins of the electric bike.
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Word processor software has become an indispensable tool in our daily life. Remarkably, it appears that this software product evolved from the mechanical typewriter. This article is the second of a series of five on product evolution. They illustrate that technological evolution can explain ‘the origin of products’, although one of a different nature than we […]
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In the first of a series of blog posts, Huub Ehlhardt, co-author of On the Origin of Products, asks: ‘Can product development be considered as an evolutionary process?'
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Vito Tanzi, renowned economist and author of Termites of the State, discusses the industrialized world's economic development during the 20th century to today...
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