Swift Creek, N.C. North Carolina regional economist Thomas Vass, of Raleigh, North Carolina, moved up into the top 2000 in the global rankings for economic writers. The rankings are based upon statistical analysis of downloads of scholarly paper on the global website, Social Science Research Network (www.ssrn.com)
Vass is currently ranked at 1668 for most downloads in the past 12 months. He was ranked at 22,971 as recently as October of 2008. His papers have been downloaded 1168 times, as of the beginning of April 2009.
“I write about the relationship between technological innovation and small business job creation,” said Vass. “This topic has proven to be very interesting to a number of economists around the world, and my analysis tends to be somewhat controversial among traditional economic theorists.”
His most recent paper, Asking All The Wrong Questions About U. S. Home-Based Replacement of Domestic Knowledge Networks, explains that the function and operation of the global knowledge networks contributes to the home-based replacement (HBR) of domestic small U. S. business knowledge networks.
Vass states that HBR, global knowledge collaboration among large corporations (MNCs), and U. S. trade policies are all inextricably linked to the economic decline and loss of jobs in America. The right question to ask is what is the best economic policy for promoting the interests of small business product technology innovation, not what is best for the small set of very large corporations and large U. S. universities who are reaping most of the benefits of the current globalization policy nexus.
Vass manages a global due diligence platform for small high tech firms that are raising capital called The Private Capital Market® and is an economic development consultant for Regional Innovation Systems™, Inc.
