El conocimiento y la riqueza de las naciones

el enigma del crecimiento económico, su historia y su explicación moderna

En 1980, Paul Romer, estudiante de doctorado de veinticuatro años, trató de resolver uno de los enigmas más antiguos en economía. Ocho años más tarde lo había resuelto. Este libro cuenta la historia de lo que se denomina la nueva teoría del crecimiento económico: la ...

Upgrading clusters and small enterprises in developing countries

environmental, labor, innovation and social issues

Ed. Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the last two decades, the concept of cluster has become popular both in academia and in practice. As small and medium sized firms (SMEs) were acknowledged as effective sources of jobs and income, they gained an important position ...

Trade liberalisation and the poverty of Nations

Orthodox trade and growth theory, and the world's multilateral development institutions, extol the virtues of trade liberalisation and free trade for more rapid economic development of poor countries. However, the contemporary reality and history seem to tell a different story. The world economy has ...

Institutions and economic performance

Ed. Elhana Helpman. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Institutions and Economic Performance" explores the question of why income per capita varies so greatly across countries. Even taking into account disparities in resources, including physical and human capital, large economic discrepancies remain across countries. Why are some societies but not others ...

Tourism and sustainability

development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

"If unequal opportunities are large within many countries they are truly staggering on a global scale", so concludes the World Bank's 2006 World Development Report. It is a global unevenness within which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy first world ...

China

radiografía de una potencia en ascenso

Coord. Romer Cornejo. Este libro ofrece un análisis explicativo, desde diversas perspectivas, de la especificidad de China hoy en cuanto a su relación económica y diplomática con el mundo, las complejidades de la sociedad y la cultura, los cambios en el sistema político y en ...

Diaspora, development, and Democracy

the domestic impact of international migration from India

What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, "Diaspora, Development, and Democracy" provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries ...

Innovation Nation

how America is losing its innovation edge, why it matters, and what we can do to get it back

Even as the United States has lost standing in the world community because of the war in Iraq, Kao warns, the country is losing its edge in economic leadership as well. The future of our prosperity, and of our national security, is at serious risk ...

Public debt management

theory and history

Eds. Rudiger Dornbusch, Mario Draghi. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ As Europe proceeds towards economic and monetary union, fiscal convergence and the prospect of a common money are at the centre of discussion. This volume from the Centre for Economic Policy Research brings together theoretical, applied and historical research on ...

The future of central banking

the tercentenary Symposium of the Bank of England

Aut. Forrest Capie...[et al]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This volume contains two major papers prepared for the Bank of England's Tercentenary Symposium in June 1994. The first, by Forrest Capie, Charles Goodhart and Norbert Schnadt, provides an authoritative account of the evolution of central banking. It traces ...

Profitability and unemployment

Discussions of economic policy argue that an adequate level of profitability is a precondition for avoiding future unemployment. This book studies the rationale for this statement. The analysis is built round a simple model of the Harrod-Doman type and extends the study of fixed-price equilibria ...

Marxian political economy

an outline

This book combines a lucid exposition of the fundamental categories of Marxian political economy with an interpretive analysis of advanced capitalist development. Unlike neo-Marxist economists, who attempt to reinterpret Marx in the light of Keynes, Professor Becker adopts an unalloyed Marxist approach to the leading ...

The price of prosperity

a realistic appraisal of the future of our national economy

Foreword by Paul A. Samuelson. One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management. Now, with classic titles such as "Economist on Wall Street", "A ...

Readings in public choice and constitutional political economy

Public choice is the study of behavior at the intersection of economics and political science. Since the pioneering work of Duncan Black in the 1940s, public choice has developed a rich literature, drawing from such related perspectives as history, philosophy, law, and sociology, to analyze ...

Global political economy

a marxist critique

This is an ambitious survey of the history and state of the world economy, covering the major upheavals of the capitalist system over the last 100 years. Bill Dunn provides an original and enlightening explanation of the state of the world economy. He covers all ...

Integración económica en Europa

aspectos macroeconómicos y regionales

EL proceso de integración europea constituye uno de los principales acontecimientos económicos, sociales y políticos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Despu és de siglos de continuas hostilidades, tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial una serie de países de Europa Occidental deciden avanzar en el ...

Why are there so many banking crises?

the politics and policy of bank regulation

Almost every country in the world has sophisticated systems to prevent banking crises. Yet such crises - and the massive financial and social damage they can cause - remain common throughout the world. Does deposit insurance encourage depositors and bankers to take excessive risks? Are banking regulations ...

Global financial warriors

the untold story of international finance in the post-9/11 world

Sworn in as the head of the US Treasury Department's international finance division just before 9/11, John Taylor soon found himself at the centre of the war on terror. 'Taylor's story of a pivotal time in international finance - from reforming the IMF ...

The writing on the wall

China and the West in the 21st century

The prevailing view of China is of an economic juggernaut set to make the 21st century its own. This provocative and stimulating book warns instead that China is running up against a set of daunting challenges from within that could well derail its rise and ...

The politics of high-tech growth

developmental network states in the global economy

This book argues that beneath the Irish trade and foreign investment boom lies a more interesting story of regional innovation promoted by an alliance between the state and local technical communities. This alliance was governed through a decentralized set of state institutions, drawing on 'global ...