This paper puts health questions within the context of national development and industrial policy. It follows the idea of structuralist, Marxist and Schumpeterian approaches, in which industry and innovations form determining factors for the dynamism in capitalist economies and relative positions within the world economy. All countries that have developed and started to compete under better con...

Executive Summary This study assesses the contribution of agriculture to Wisconsin's economy. Building on the analysis of Deller (2004), we use data from 2007 in this study. By using 2007 as the year of analysis, we are able to build on the current Census of Agriculture, which provides detailed data for 2007. We also explore changes in aggregate measures of agriculture from 1990 to 2007, and mo...

Studies over the past few years have clearly shown that noise levels are rela tively high on tractors, and other farm machinery, and that farmers as a group suffer from noise induced hearing loss (3, 5, 6). Evidence is increasing that noise may also affect man's non-auditory systems and his psychological state (4), but much less research work has been done on this subject, especially at the far...

McWilliams explored the injustices of migratory farm labor in California. Yet his description of the rural California landscape at that time captures the essential characteristics of the predominant form of agricultural production in the United States today: Travelers along the highways pass through orchards that seem literally mea-sureless and gaze upon vast tracts of farm land stretching away...

This work adds to the previous literature on networked business incubators (NBIs) by exploring the complex network of relationships originated from a NBI. In particular, social ties (cooperative relations between individuals) and business ties (formal linkages between organizations) are investigated. The analytical framework developed here is empirically illustrated through a case study researc...

This paper reviews the origin and theoretical foundation of the concept MilitaryIndustrial Complex and explains the key issues involved in the literature on the MIC in the Cold war context. It then considers the implications for the MIC of some main post-Cold War developments, with particular emphasis on the arms industry, its structure and effects. It then assesses the degree to which the end ...

7 About 2% of English-language literature on plantations deals with mixed-species 8 plantations, but only a tiny proportion (<0.1%) of industrial plantations are 9 polycultures. Small landholders are more innovative, with 12% of Australia’s farm 10 forestry plantations under mixed-species plantings, and 80% of Queensland’s farm 11 forestry as polycultures. We examine reasons for this discrepanc...