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Information Technology: A Critical Perspective on its Economic Effects
BRIGITTE PREISSL
Pages: 5-25
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Multidisciplinary Policy Research—An Australian Experience
GABRIELE BAMMER
Pages: 27-39
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Nurturing National Talent: The Australian Research Council's Fellowship Scheme
JANE MARCEAU & HUGH PRESTON
Pages: 41-53
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Symposium on Evolving Communications and Socio-economic Change (STEP 1996)
DAVID ANTHONY, THOMAS MANDEVILLE & JOHN FOSTER
Page: 55
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Economics and the Diffusion of Communication and Information Technologies: Joseph Schumpeter and the Self-organisation Approach
JOHN FOSTER
Pages: 57-71
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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The Knowledge-based Economy: A Sisyphus Model
DON LAMBERTON
Pages: 73-81
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Modelling the Coevolution of Communications and Socio-economic Structure
PETER M. ALLEN
Pages: 83-100
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Communicative Strategies and the Evolution of Organisations Facing the New Turbulence: ICTs as Problems and Opportunities
GREG HEARN & ABRAHAM NINAN
Pages: 101-109
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Signs of Convergence? Images of the University in the Management of R&D
KEITH RANDLE
Pages: 111-123
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Pioneering Strategies and Small Firms, an Australia–UK Comparison
JULIAN LOWE
Pages: 125-135
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Book Reviews

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The Making of the Australian National University 1946–1996, S. G. Foster & Margaret M. Varghese Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1996, xi+ 464 pp., A$59.95, ISBN 1-86448-0831
Ann Moyal
Pages: 137-139
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
First Page PreviewforThe Making of the Australian National University 1946–1996, S. G. Foster & Margaret M. Varghese Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1996, xi+ 464 pp., A$59.95, ISBN 1-86448-0831 | PDF (208.8 KB)
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Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age: The Production and Distribution of Information in the United States, Jorge Reina Schement & Terry Curtis New Brunswick, USA, Transaction Publishers, 1995, viii + 285 pp., ISBN 1-56000-166-6
D. McL. Lamberton
Pages: 139-141
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
First Page PreviewforTendencies and Tensions of the Information Age: The Production and Distribution of Information in the United States, Jorge Reina Schement & Terry Curtis New Brunswick, USA, Transaction Publishers, 1995, viii + 285 pp., ISBN 1-56000-166-6 | References | PDF (208.9 KB)
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The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought, Robert Heilbroner & William Milberg Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, ix + 131 pp., A$23.95 (Pbk), ISBN 0-521-49774-4
John Laurent
Pages: 141-144
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
First Page PreviewforThe Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought, Robert Heilbroner & William Milberg Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, ix + 131 pp., A$23.95 (Pbk), ISBN 0-521-49774-4 | References | PDF (275.3 KB)
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Does Technology Drive History?: The Dilemma of Technological Determinism, Merritt Roe Smith & Leo Marx (Eds), Cambridge, MA, London, MIT Press, 1995, xv + 288 pp., ISBN 0-262-69167-1
John Howells
Pages: 144-148
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
First Page PreviewforDoes Technology Drive History?: The Dilemma of Technological Determinism, Merritt Roe Smith & Leo Marx (Eds), Cambridge, MA, London, MIT Press, 1995, xv + 288 pp., ISBN 0-262-69167-1 | PDF (354.4 KB)
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Information System Concepts: Towards a Consolidation of Views, Eckhard D. Falkenburg, Wolfgang Hesse & Antoni Olivé (Eds), London, Chapman Hall, 1995, viii + 315 pp., £50.00 (hbk), ISBN 0-412-63950-5
Stephen E. Little
Pages: 149-151
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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The Tyranny of the Market: A Critique of Theoretical Foundations, Douglas Vickers, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1995, ix + 261 pp., £39.60, ISBN 0-472-10618-X
D. McL. Lamberton
Pages: 151-152
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Science Policy and Research Management in the Balkan Countries, George Parissakis & Nikos Katsaros (Eds), Dordrecht, Boston, London, Kluwer Academic Publishers, in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affiirs Division, 1995, xiii + 236 pp., US$157.00, ISBN 0-7923-3599-6
Dora Marinova
Pages: 153-155
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Evolutionary Economics and Chaos Theory: New Directions in Technology Studies, Loet Leydesdorff & Peter Van den Besselaar (Eds), London, Pinter Publishers, 1994, xi + 215 pp., £35.00 (hbk), £14.99 (Pbk), ISBN 1-855671980 (hbk), 1-85567-2022 (pbk)
John Howells
Pages: 155-158
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
First Page PreviewforEvolutionary Economics and Chaos Theory: New Directions in Technology Studies, Loet Leydesdorff & Peter Van den Besselaar (Eds), London, Pinter Publishers, 1994, xi + 215 pp., £35.00 (hbk), £14.99 (Pbk), ISBN 1-855671980 (hbk), 1-85567-2022 (pbk) | PDF (280 KB)
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Netiquette, Virginia Shea, San Francisco, Albion Books, 1994, 154 pp., $US19.95, ISBN 0-9637025-1-3
David Rooney
Pages: 158-159
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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On the Cards: Privacy, Identity and Trust in the Age of Smart Technologies, Perri 6 & Ivan Briscoe, London, Demos, 1996, 128 pp., £9.95, ISBN 1-898309-72-8
Richard Joseph
Pages: 159-161
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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Evaluation of Commonwealth Support for MFP Australia, Bureau of Industry Economics, Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1996, xv + 150 pp., ISBN 0-644-36222-7
Thomas Mandeville
Pages: 161-162
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
CitationforEvaluation of Commonwealth Support for MFP Australia, Bureau of Industry Economics, Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1996, xv + 150 pp., ISBN 0-644-36222-7 | References | PDF (96.6 KB)
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Miscellany

NEWS
Page: 163
Published online: 21 Oct 2008
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