In China the idea of common prosperity dates back to 1953. After 1979 chose let some people and places get rich first accelerate economic development, with Deng Xiaoping arguing that public property could prevent social polarization. The result was extraordinary sustained growth but at expense large increases in urban-rural, regional inequalities income wealth themselves associated private capi...

My first brush with intellectual property came through defending free data release from the human genome project. I was amazed at the tacit acceptance by some that this information could and should be privatized. The product was not an invention: a genome sequence is a clearcut case of public domain material. People need a robust system for handling intellectual property, but patents have ambiv...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the uneven rise in prosperity between 1999 and 2008 accounted for differential increases in life expectancy in English local authorities. DESIGN Longitudinal ecological study. SETTING 324 local authorities in England, classified by their baseline level of deprivation. M: ain outcome measures Multivariable regression was used to investigate the association be...

Due to the growing importance of metropolitan regions for the economy this work aims at analyzing what fosters economic prosperity. We propose the theory that creativity generates new ideas and enhances the entrepreneurship level in the city. In this research the focus lies on metropolitan regions, located around 30 Informational World Cities, which are prototypical cities of the knowledge soci...