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Gerald W. Brock,Telecommunication Policy for the Information Age

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The Impact of Rate-of-Return Regulation on Technological Innovation,Mark W. Frank.

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Globalization and Uncertainty: Earnings Volatility in Sweden, 1985–2003

Earnings volatility has been linked to economic integration only through contradictory conjectures. We assess globalization’s role by examining volatility trends in manufacturing, private services, and public services. If trade increases uncertainty, volatility trends should differ markedly across industries since manufacturing, in contrast to especially public services, is exposed to international competition. We analyze earnings trajectories in Sweden 1985–2003, a country and period evincing accelerating trade, finding no indications of greater volatility increases in manufacturing.     

Office Building Investment and the Macroeconomy: Empirical Evidence, 1973–1985

Given the recent concern about overbuilding in the office sector, this paper considers the influence that macroeconomic factors have upon office construction. Because office construction is volatile and because the "time to build" problem requires construction to change with a lag, the paper employs a different methodology, vector autoregressions, to model the office building sector. The findings indicate that anticipated output has a large and direct effect. This effect depends on the predictive content of nominal interest rates, suggesting that the declines in nominal rates over the past five years explains the recent overbuilding.     

A Review of: “THE STAGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH” A Non-Communist Manifesto By W. W. Rostow Cambridge University Press,New York, 1960 179 pp. Cloth ed. $3.75; paper ed. $1.45

History records that political economy received at least perfunctory attention in what were then engineering schools, over one hundred and thirty years ago. In 1827, Valentine B. Horton, who was later to become a Whig congressman and to make and lose a fortune, became “a professor of Moral Philosophy and Political Economy” at the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy, the forerunner of Norwich University.¹ During the 1840s and ′50s, many engineering schools included a few lectures in moral philosophy and political economy in their programs. More formal and more enthusiastic promotion of economics on engineering campuses was evident under the aegis of Francis Amasa Walker, a noted economist and statistician, who, after service at the Sheffield School at Yale, became president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the early l88Os. Under his guidance, and that of Davis R. Dewey, who became an assistant professor of Economics and Statistics at M.I.T. in 1888, economics began to flourish on at least one engineering campus.