General Equilibrium and Welfare

This overview of competitive general equilibrium theory and welfare economy adopts a methodological approach of a closed and inter-related system where all variables are simultaneously determined. By using theorems of fixed point, revealed preference and local and global stability, the author proves the existence of ...

Ciclos económicos

análisis teórico, histórico y estadístico del proceso capitalista

El libro, publicado originariamente en 1939, constituye una prolongación de la Teoría del desenvolvimiento económico (1911). En esta magna obra Schumpeter pretendió fijar la dinámica del capitalismo desde finales del siglo XVIII combinando su teoría de la innovación con materiales históricos y estadísticos. Tras una ...

The Cambridge controversies in capital theory

A study in the logic of theory development

This book explains the debate over the Cambridge controversies of the 1960s and 1970s. In a compelling and comprehensive argument, Birner discusses the main contributions to the controversy in a series of case studies. He gradually develops a methodological model of idealizations that explains both ...

The nature of economic growth

an alternative framework for understanding the performance of nations

This concise book, by one of the leading scholars in development economics, has been developed from a series of lectures given to masters students and will serve as an excellent introduction to the principles of growth and development theory. The author presents conventional wisdom with ...

Econometrics

.V.3. Economic growth in the information age

The decline in the prices of information technology (IT) has enhanced the role of IT investment as a source of economic growth in the US. This text shows that IT provides the foundation for the resurgence of American economic growth. Information technology rests in turn ...

Producción e incertidumbre en equilibrio general dinámico

Producción e Incertidumbre en equilibrio General Dinámico" recoge, de manera rigurosa aunque eludiendo la excesiva abstracción en el tratamiento, los principales aspectos y cuestiones a tener en cuenta cuando la producción y la incertidumbre son consideradas dentro del Equilibrio general Competitivo. Junto a los resultados ...

Systemic transformation, trade and economic growth

developments, theoretical analysis and empirical results

Since the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Central and Eastern European Countries (CEESs) have been involved in the transition process. This book compares the progress of some of these economies in transition and analyses their ...

El crecimiento ecónomico y las artes

Los paises con mayor tradición cultural obvian a menudo el estudio de la Economía de la Cultura. Este ensayo pone de manifiesto la necesidad de cubrir ese vacío. Nosólo porque el análisis de la cultura desde la perspectiva económica contribuye a mejorar la política cultural ...

Desarrollo sostenible en un mundo dinámico

Transformación de instituciones, crecimiento y calidad de vida.

El informe sobre el Desarrollo mundial 2003 examina la relación entre objetivos políticos en competencia -reducir la pobreza, mantener el crecimiento, mejorar la cohesión social y proteger el medio ambiente- en un horizonte de 50 años. El informe observa que se han identificado muchas políticas ...

Economic policy reform

the second stage

The papers and commentary collected here constitute a vital discussion of contemporary thinking on economic policy reform, in particular the difficulties that leave so much of the world seemingly mired in poverty. Distinguished contributors address issues ranging from education and privatization to exchange rates and ...

European responses to globalization and financial market integration

perceptions of Economic and Monetary Union in Britain, France and Germany

Description: This book investigates the perceptions of political actors towards the creation of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in Europe. The research is largely based on personal interviews conducted with key informants in central banks, finance ministries, employers' organizations and trade unions in Britain, France ...

Too sensational

on the choice of exchange rates regimes

In this volume, W. Max Corden presents a systematic and accessible overview of the choice of exchange rate regimes. Reviewing many types of regimes, he shows how the choice of an exchange rate regime is related to both fiscal policy and trade policy. Building on ...

Exchange rate regimes

choices and consequences

Few topics in international economics are as controversial as the choice of an exchange rate regime. Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, countries have adopted a wide variety of regimes, ranging from pure floats at one extreme to currency ...

Economics of exchange rates

In the last few decades exchange rate economics has seen a number of developments, with substantial contributions to both the theory and empirics of exchange rate determination. Important developments in econometrics and the increasingly large availability of high-quality data have also been responsible for stimulating ...

The behaviour of fiscal authorities

stabilisation, growth and institutions

Description: The behaviour of fiscal authorities and its interplay with budgetary institutions is a recent and increasingly important area of economic research, heightened by the move to single currency in Europe. This volume provides a systematic analysis of issues including the determinants of fiscal retrenchment ...

Money and Politics

That large financial contributions distort American politics and American democracy is an idea that stands as a truism in political debate. It has fired reform movements; it has inspired round after round of efforts to limit who can give to candidates and parties, how much ...

La fragilidad financiera del capitalismo

La fragilidad financiera es uno de os problemas endémicos del Capitalismo. Un problema que que no parece encontrarse en vías de solución como lo prueban las crisis bursátiles, cambiarias y bancarias de la última década, algunas de las cuales son objeto de análisis del presente ...

The politics of money

towards sustainability and economic democracy

The book opens with a review of the role of money in currnt society, an overview of the history of money creations and a critique of the main theoretical developements in economic thought. Alternative perspectives on money are then presented through a review of a ...

Monetary transmission in diverse economies

This 2002 volume explains different aspects of the transmission mechanism. It scrutinizes the relevance of practical issues such as asymmetries, recent structural changes and estimation errors using data on the US, Euro area and developing countries. Also focuses on modelling crucial aspects including productivity, the ...

Moving money

banking and finance in the industrialized world

Daniel Verdier's book is an analysis of how politics influences financial systems. He shows that differing national political institutions have led to different regulatory policies and thus different financial structures. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of financial politics and ...