This chapter focuses on the 1960s, when a rationalistic approach to social engineering and planning gained momentum in government circles, universities and international organizations. The first of this chapter's three sections examines how the OECD and its precursor, the OEEC, served as platforms ...
market saturation.Nintendo, on the other hand, entered the home-video game market in the 1970s and faced a collapse in the 1980s due to consumer dissatisfaction and market saturation. However, Nintendo revived the market with its NES system and implemented strategies like contractual restrictions o...
War may retard the processes of growth, but will scarcely alter their character ; and changes in social system and class structure can also be disregarded in measuring the probable movements of the wprld's economic life. In the past, Mr. Clark maintains, wars and revolutions have been unable...
(1): 重建美国梦机器 From The Economist print editionRebuilding the American dream machine重建美国梦机器FOR America's colleges, January is a month of reckoning. Most applications for the next academic year beginning in the autumn have to be made by the end of December, so a university's ...
The term “knowledge economy” was first coined in the 1960s by Peter Drucker. Themanagementconsultant used the term to describe a shift from traditional economies, where there was a reliance on unskilled labor and primary production, to economies reliant on service industries and jobs requiring mo...
and offering services ranging from low—cost bulk transport to fast regular liner services.Air freight started to becomeviable(切实可行的,有望实现的)for transporting high—value commodities betweenregions in the 1960s. It competeswith the liner services forpremium[ˈpri:miəm]额外费用,高价的 ...
Despite these oversights, however, the relatively primitive state of health economics in the mid-1960s was broadly as Blaug describes it. Whereas the economics of education seems to have atrophied, however, health economics has flourished and provided practical answers to practical questions as well...
W Dolfsma,S Kesting 摘要: Kenneth Boulding was a prolific writer across so many different fields that not only is he often much referred to and cited, he is considered a core member of many of these fields. Boulding is the quintessential interdisciplinary scholar. He died in 1993, but he ...
Educational Developmentalists Divided? Patrick Cannon, Patrick Hillery and the Economics of Education in the Early 1960s Economic & Social ReviewMURRAY, PETER
Before the 1960s, the Grand Banks fishery off the coast of Newfoundland was abundant with codfish because the fishery supported all the cod fishing they could do with existing fishing technology while reproducing itself each year through the natural spawning cycle. However, advancements in fishing te...