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in Business History (2006), click here.
The Institute for Applied Economics
and the Study of Business Enterprise is an inter-divisional organization
at the Johns Hopkins University, dedicated to improving our understanding
of applied economics, with a particular reference to currency and monetary
policies, and business enterprise, with a particular emphasis upon innovations
in high-tech industries. The institute conducts seminars and colloquia,
publishes studies and working papers, and encourages the work of scholars
in history, economics, political science, and other related disciplines.
Its co-directors are Louis Galambos
and Steve H. Hanke. Its Italian
wing is directed by Professor Franco
Amatori, Bocconi University, Milan.

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Louis Galambos is an economic
and business historian whose work in recent years has focused on
innovation in modern science-based industries, in particular pharmaceuticals
and telecommunications. He works on the intersections between private,
nonprofit (NGO) and public institutions.
Louis Galambos
Technology,
Political Economy, and Professionalization: Central Themes of the
Organizational Synthesis. For more papers by Louis Galambos,
continue here.
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Steve Hanke is an applied economist
who works at the intersection of economics and finance. His research
focuses on the solution to problems he confronts "in the field,"
while operating as either a policy adviser or trader. He has contributed
to the design and implementation of numerous currency reforms (currency
boards and "dollarization") and presided over the world's best
performing emerging market mutual fund in 1995
Steve Hanke
Empire of the Sun:
A Neo-Austrian Economic Interpretation of Enron's Energy Business.
For more papers by Steve Hanke, continue
here.
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Franco Amatori is an economic and business
historian who studies both large and small enterprises in the Italian
setting. Working within the comparative framework initially developed
by Alfred D. Chandler. Amatori has described and analyzed the important
roles of government and of families in the industrialization process.
His explorations position him at the borders where business, political
and social history meet.
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