01435cam a2200253 a 450000100070000000500170000700700030002400800410002702000180006802000180008605000210010410000160012524500920014125000120023326000310024530000380027650000430031450400640035750505750042152001000099665100330109670000180112971000340114783748320230531231519.0tz090331s2009    nyuab    b    001 0 eng    a9780446541473  a978044654146600aHC415.25b.S455S1 aSenor, Dan.10aStart-up nation :bthe story of Israel's economic miracle /cDan Senor and Saul Singer.  a1st ed.  aNew York :bTwelve,c2009.  ax, 304 p. :bill., maps ;c24 cm.  a"A Council on Foreign Relations book."  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-290) and index.0 aIntroduction -- Persistance -- Battlefield entrepreneurs -- The people of the book -- Harvard, Princeton and Yale -- Where rigid order meets random chaos -- Leap-frog : a short history of economic policy -- Immigration : the google guys' challenge -- Diaspora : stealing airplanes -- The buffett test -- Yozma : the match -- The birth of Israel's military industrial complex -- The life of Israel's cluster -- The death of Israel's military industrial complex & the birth of Israel's mashup complex -- A perpetuum mobile? : threats to the economic miracle -- Conclusion.  a"What the world can learn from Israel's meteoric economic success."--Provided by the publisher. 0aIsraelxEconomic conditions.1 aSinger, Saul.2 aCouncil on Foreign Relations.