Here is a video on the reading by Micheal Porter for the last week of class.
Here are the links to the various articles by W. Brian Arthur:
Increasing Returns and the New World of Business (in HBR)
Positive Feedbacks in the Economy (in Scientific American)
And his more recent article on Complexity Economics
This is his website at the Santa Fe Institute
If you like you can also read Chapter 7 of Information Rules, by Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian
Here are two interesting pieces.
The first is about Singapore and government backing a venture which should have failed. It is written by Scott Anthony who has written some books with HBS (Disruptive) Innovation Guru Clayton Christensen and works for Innosight - a company founded by Christensen. There is a book by Josh Lerner on government efforts at venture capital which I had to stop reading (temporarily I hope) because it could have been better written: Boulevard of Broken Dreams
The second is a Q&A on HBS Working Knowledge with Gary Pisano and Willy Shih who have earlier argued that manufacturing is essential for the U.S. if it wants to continue to innovate. So they think its not too late to bring manufacturing back and also suggest that the U.S. should have a coordinated national economic strategy (Mike Porter says the same thing). Unfortunately they don't tell us how this would happen and what government might do to discourage outsourcing. And of course - they completely miss out consumers.
