The Oxford handbook of innovation

This handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation. Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Politics, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body of ...

Geography and economy

three lectures

This book focuses on the theme of the mutually constitutive relations between geographic space and the economic order. Three principle lines of investigation are identified and explored. First, Allen J. Scott sketches out the general theory of the division of labour and the ways in ...

Economic development

In this fourth edition of his textbook, E. Wayne Nafziger analyzes the economic development of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and East-Central Europe. This comprehensive and clearly written text explains the growth in real income per person and income disparities within and between developing countries. The ...

Understanding poverty

Brings together essays by thirty-four leading economists about important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. These essays range from the impact of colonialism and globalization to the future of micro-credit and the quest for vaccines.

Economic development

Índice: I. PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS. 1. Economics, Institutions, and Development: A Global Perspective. 2. Comparative Development: Differences and Commonalities among Developing Countries. 3. Classic Theories of Economic Development. 4. Contemporary Models of Development and Underdevelopment. II. PROBLEMS AND POLICIES: DOMESTIC. 5. Poverty, Inequality, and Development ...

Los límites del crecimiento

30 años después

La humanidad puede y debe responder a las señales que indican que el crecimiento mundial alcanza ya unos niveles insostenibles. Ha llegado el momento de buscar soluciones políticas, económicas y sociales para alejar el mundo del borde del abismo al que se asoma. Los límites ...

Institutions, development, and economic growth

Leading international economists discuss how and why institutions influence growth. This work talks about the empirical and theoretical studies that provide an overview and contribute to the current research. The determinants of economic growth and development are hotly debated among economists. Financial crises and failed ...

Innovation dynamism and economic growth

a nonlinear perspective

Contents: Preface 1. Nonlinear Dynamism of Innovation: Executive Summary Part I: Diffusion of Innovation and Economic Growth 2. Dynamics of Product Diffusion and Economic Development 3. Kondratiev Business Cycles and Innovation Dynamism 4. Sequence of Bubble, Crash and Depression 5. Trunk Innovations and Institutional Change ...

Living standards and the wealth of nations

successes and failures in real convergence

A group of prominent international economists consider what makes for successful convergence - what policies and economic conditions help poor countries catch up to the living standards of rich countries. The question of convergence, or under what conditions the per capita income levels of developing countries ...

Knowledge and the wealth of nations

a story of economic discovery

In 1980, the twenty-four-year-old graduate student Paul Romer tackled one of the oldest puzzles in economics. Eight years later he solved it. This book tells the story of what has come to be called the new growth theory: the paradox identified by Adam Smith more ...

Las microfinanzas, instrumento de desarrollo entre Europa e Iberoamérica

INDICE: Siglas y abreviaturas. Prólogo. Sistema financiero, microfinanzas y desarrollo: especial referencia a América Latina. Microfinanzas en los países del sur: surgimiento y características generales. Reflexiones sobre la sostenibilidad y alcance de las instituciones microfinancieras en el Perú. Marcos reguladores de las microfinanzas en Centroamérica ...

Next economic growth

new factors and new perspectives

Considering the new possibilities offered by endogenous growth models and the improvement of data information, new variables have been introduced in the analysis of economic growth. But in spite of this important effort to develop a wider and more complete perspective of economic growth process ...

Clusters and globalisation

the development of urban and regional economies

Clustering as an economic policy concern has become increasingly fashionable. The authors of this book shed light on this subject of which there remains remarkably little understanding, and even less agreement, regarding what clusters are, what they require for success and what impacts they are ...

Deuda externa y comercio mundial

momento de establecer vínculos

En la actualidad los países en desarrollo adeudan más de tres veces la cantidad que debían hace 25 años. El pago de la deuda absorbe la mayor parte de sus recursos que, en consecuencia, no pueden emplearse en reducir la pobreza, en mejorar la salud ...

Regional economic development

analysis and planning strategy

The second edition of this book is completely reedited making the book even more valuable for graduate students, reflecting recent advances and adding insightful new material. The book is about the analysis of regional economic performance and change, and how analysis integrates with strategies for ...

Objetivo decrecimiento

Esta obra combate frontalmente el crecimiento sostenible, que los autores consideran una falacia, y ofrece una propuesta tan radical como razonada: sustituir el crecimiento económico por el decrecimiento. Éste se puede implementar de diversas formas, y no iría en detrimento de nuestro bienestar, sino que ...

Crecimiento económico

INDICE:Primera Parte: Visión panorámica.Capítulo 1. Los hechos. Capítulo 2. Un marco analítico.Segunda Parte: La acumulación de factores.Capítulo 3. El capital físico.Capítulo 4. La población y el crecimiento económico.Capítulo 5. Tendencias futuras de la población. Capítulo 6. El capital humano ...

Entrepreneurship and economic growth

#Why do economies grow? For centuries this has been one of the most important questions in economics. The importance of this question is found in the simple fact that the purchasing power of the average individual has increased ten fold in just one hundred years ...

Growth and econommic development

essays in honour of A.P. Thriwall

This valuable and engaging new book bears eloquent testimony to A.P. Thirlwall's substantial contribution to economics over the last 40 years. The volume does not attempt to provide a comprehensive review of such a prolific figure, but rather demonstrates the considerable influence that ...

Dynamic macroeconomic theory

The tasks of macroeconomics are to interpret observations on economic aggregates in terms of the motivations and constraints of economic agents and to predict the consequences of alternative hypothetical ways of administering government economic policy. General equilibrium models form a convenient context for analyzing such ...