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| Book: Kalecki’s Economics Today This 250-pages-long book presents not only the legacy of Kalecki (a brilliant economist, whose only fault was to publish in Polish language; he independently discovered many of the key concepts of what is now identified as Keynesian theory), but also a possible reading of Michal Kalecki as a behavioural economist and the implications for modern evolutionary economic analysis. Book: The Dynamics of California's Biotechnology Industry This 160-pages-long book is an extremely innovative analysis of how biotechnology firms really work and grow with far-reaching lessons for technology policy-makers.
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