Increasing Returns

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

Learning from Hal Varian … about Mike Porter

Found this interesting article by Hal Varian (Google's Chief Economist …  well known to Economists who had to study his Advanced Micro book in grad school) in Google's quarterly magazine on some uber Google tools.  So I decided to look up 'interest' in Michael Porter.  Here is my chart:


OK, the regional data make sense, developing countries are likely to be more interested in building National Competitiveness (and Singapore of course is 'Kiasu')  Declining trend from 2004 to about 2007 and then pretty flat (good thing this is not the cluster blog!).  But then again, may be he is not traveling as much.  Drilling down to some of the regional numbers shows that searches peak when he visits a country.  So here is the chart for Kenya … interest peaks in mid-2007.  He gave a talk in Nairobi in June 2007.


Charts: Google: Insights for Search