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 ...

Modelos de crecimiento económico y dinámicas complejas

El objetivo fundamental de este trabajo reside en mostrar cómo la introducción de no linealidades permite explicar fenómenos económicos no explicados por la modelización lineal, que los considera resultado de perturbaciones exógenas e inexplicables. Para ello, en concreto, vamos a analizar cómo afecta la consideración ...

The forces of economic growth

a time series perspective

Development economics

from the poverty to the wealth of nations

This book provides a comprehensive, systematic treatise on development economics, combining classical political economy, modern institutional theory, and current development issues. It addresses one basic question: Why has a small set of countries achieved a high level of affluence while the majority remains poor and ...

Regulation and development

In Regulation and Development Jean-Jacques Laffont provides the first theoretical analysis of regulation of public services for developing countries. He shows how the debate between price-cap regulation and cost of service regulation is affected by the characteristics of less developed countries (LDCs) and offers a ...

The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid

INDEX: Preface . I. 1. The Market at the Bottom of the Pyramid . 2. Products and Services for the BOP. 3. BOP: A Global Opportunity? 4. The Private Sector Eco System. 5. Transaction Governance Capacity andThe Evolution of Bottom of the Pyramid Markets. 6. Development as ...

Rethinking regional innovation and change

path dependency or regional breakthrough

Beyond path dependency and competitive convergence: Institutional transfer from a discourse-analytical perspective.- Tacit knowledge, path dependency and local trajectories of growth.- Regional transformation and regional disequilibrium: New knowledge economies and their discontents.- Switching ties, recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization?- Knowledge- intensive services as ...

The plain language guide to the world summit on sustainable development

The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002 brought together thousands of delegates with the goal of mapping out the future of the global sustainable development agenda. The resulting 54-page technical document, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI), outlining government priorities and ...

Globalization and growth

case studies in national economic strategies

This text contains cases developed for use in teaching international political economy at the Harvard Business School. They represent the major developmental trajectories that have defined the recent history of economic growth. These cases empirically describe the strategies of China, India, Japan, Mexico, South Africa ...

Spatial inequality and development

Leading issues in economic development

Urban futures

economic growth and poverty reduction

Democracy, governance and economic performance

theory and evidence

Growth and enpowerment

making development happen

Las nuevas fuerzas del desarrollo

¿Es posible el desarrollo económico sostenible en un contexto de creciente competencia y globalización de la economía y la sociedad? ¿Cuáles son los mecanismos que lo hacen posible? ¿Qué acciones y relaciones favorecen un proceso continuo y duradero de desarrollo? El autor da respuesta a ...

Volatility and growth

It has long been recognized that productivity growth and the business cycle are closely interrelated. Yet, until recently, the two phenomena have been investigated separately in the economics literature. This book provides the first consistent attempt to analyze the effects of macroeconomic volatility on productivity ...

Reimagining growth

towards a renewal of development theory

For the past two decades,development theory has been trumped by development economics,while within economics itself the simplistic notions of neoclassical theory have prevailed with their assumption thet markets,freed up from all institutional restraints(including the state), will automatically deliver much higher rates ...

Croissance et richesse des nations

A l'heure où l'on s'interroge sur le sens de la croissance, cet ouvrage entreprend une lecture à la fois historique et comparée des modalités de la croissance et de l'accumulation dans les pays développés. L'approche est institutionnaliste. Elle suit les ...

Lecturas sobre crecimiento económico

#¿Hay alguna medida que un gobierno de la India pueda tomar para que la economía de ese país crezca como la de Indonesia o la de Egipto? Si la hay, ¿cuál es exactamente? Si no, ¿qué hay en #la naturaleza de la India# que hace ...

Otro siglo perdido

las políticas de desarrollo en América Latina (1930-2005)

En ésta obra póstuma, el autor hace un análisis moderno de la región latinoamericana desde el punto de vista de la economía del desarrollo; "no es un libro para economistas de altos vuelos, que se interesan sólo en las etapas de posgrado, con grandes refinamientos ...