Escape (termination of a meal) and token-based differential reinforcement of alternative behavior were used as reinforcement to increase acceptance of food. Using a changing criterion design, the number of bites accepted and consumed was gradually increased to 15 bites per meal. These data suggest that, in some cases, escape may be a potent reinforcer for food acceptance.

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor-augmenting properties of technological...

The transition to New Economy and knowledge-based economy in the 1990s and early 21st century created an atmosphere that entrepreneurs and SMEs became crucial engines of economic growth. It was conjectured that such trends were brought about various changes in global business environment. These changes include technological changes, increased globalization, employment flexibility, consumer dive...

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................. 219 Back to School ........................................................................... 219 A New Economy ....................................................................... 220 A New Framework .................................................................... 220 Some Caveats ..................

The ISIS-model allows a better understanding for managers and regional authorities of the ongoing change towards the information based “New Economy” and towards an information society. New policies have become possible for generating sustainable regional growth, sustainable in both, regional economic success and ecological health. The ISIS-model is build for evaluating policies for sustainabili...

SINCE THE EARLY 1980s the U.S. economy has gone through two long expansions. The first, from 1982 to 1990, lasted thirty-one quarters. The second started in 1991 and, although showing signs of faltering, has recorded its fortieth quarter as this volume goes to press and is already the longest U.S. expansion on record. One view is that these two long expansions are simply the result of luck, of ...

We study legal and policy issues surrounding crypto currencies, such as Bitcoin, and how those issues interact with technical design options. With an interdisciplinary team, we consider in depth a variety of issues surrounding law, policy, and crypto currencies — such as the physical location where a crypto currency’s value exists for jurisdictional and other purposes, the regulation of anonymo...

In this research-in-progress paper, we investigate how value is co-created in IT-enabled collaborative consumption businesses. Collaborative consumption is an emerging phenomenon which involves peerto-peer sharing of products and services amongst members in a community. Existing literature exploring the notion of collaborative consumption is uncommon and does not offer a consolidated view of ho...

This chapter examines diverse discourses of knowledge embedded in state policies set forth specifically to mobilize lifelong learning for the global knowledge economy. The discussion draws from the literature as well as examples of federal policy documents in Canada related to its Innovation Strategy launched in 2002. At least two broad policy directions have been at play in these policy docume...

Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) have been posited to play a critical role as innovation agent and knowledge broker in the new economy. While a substantial part of the literature on KIBS stresses their function as an innovation agent to their clients’ innovation process and their contributions to knowledge transfer and diffusion in innovation systems, little attention has been paid ...