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Innovation and Inequality
Emerging Technologies in an Unequal World
Edited by Susan Cozzens and Dhanaraj Thakur
Inequality is one of the main features of globalization. Do emerging technologies, as they spread around the world, contribute to more inequality or less? This unique interdisciplinary text examines the relationships between emerging technologies and social, economic and other forms of inequality.
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- Published in print:
- 30 May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781781951668
- eISBN:
- 9781781951675
- Pages:
- 360
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- Innovation and Inequality
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Problem and concepts
- Chapter 2: An introduction to the case study countries
- Chapter 3: Uneven publics: life, death, and recombinant insulin
- Chapter 4: Strong champions, strong regulations: the unexpected boundaries of genetically modified corn
- Chapter 5: Chain of champions: global inequalities and mobile phones
- Chapter 6: Turning technology on its head: the distributional dynamics of open-source software
- Chapter 7: Open source biotechnology: plant tissue culture and the growth of opportunity
- Chapter 8: Emerging technologies in Argentina: access and distributional consequences
- Chapter 9: Emerging technologies and low inequality: policy implications for Canada
- Chapter 10: Distributive paths of emerging technologies in Costa Rica
- Chapter 11: Policy options for an equitable distribution of technological benefits in Jamaica
- Chapter 12: Distributional effects of emerging technologies in Germany: analysis based on two case studies
- Chapter 13: The diffusion of emerging technologies in a micro-economy: implications for Malta
- Chapter 14: Policies for technological innovation with equity: the case of Mozambique
- Chapter 15: Earning less and buying more: emerging technologies and United States society
- Chapter 16: Discussion and conclusions
- Index
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- Published:
- 30 May 2014
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- Pages:
- ix–x (2 total)
Collection:
Economics 2014
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- Innovation and Inequality
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Problem and concepts
- Chapter 2: An introduction to the case study countries
- Chapter 3: Uneven publics: life, death, and recombinant insulin
- Chapter 4: Strong champions, strong regulations: the unexpected boundaries of genetically modified corn
- Chapter 5: Chain of champions: global inequalities and mobile phones
- Chapter 6: Turning technology on its head: the distributional dynamics of open-source software
- Chapter 7: Open source biotechnology: plant tissue culture and the growth of opportunity
- Chapter 8: Emerging technologies in Argentina: access and distributional consequences
- Chapter 9: Emerging technologies and low inequality: policy implications for Canada
- Chapter 10: Distributive paths of emerging technologies in Costa Rica
- Chapter 11: Policy options for an equitable distribution of technological benefits in Jamaica
- Chapter 12: Distributional effects of emerging technologies in Germany: analysis based on two case studies
- Chapter 13: The diffusion of emerging technologies in a micro-economy: implications for Malta
- Chapter 14: Policies for technological innovation with equity: the case of Mozambique
- Chapter 15: Earning less and buying more: emerging technologies and United States society
- Chapter 16: Discussion and conclusions
- Index