El fetiche del crecimiento

Durante décadas, nuestros políticos han proclamado que unos mayores ingresos eran el camino para un futuro mejor. Crecimiento económico significaba una vida mejor para todos nosotros. Pero tras muchos años de crecimiento económico sostenido, e ingresos personales cada vez mayores, debemos afrontar un hecho abrumador ...

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 empowerment

making development happen

Despite significant gains in promoting economic growth and living conditions (or "human progress") globally over the last twenty-five years, much of the developing world remains plagued by poverty and its attendant problems, including high rates of child mortality, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and war. In "Growth ...

The Natural survival of work

job creation and job destruction in a growing economy

How to manage the unemployment that occurs in the process of the continuous job destruction and creation responsible for growth in today's economies: what recent economic research tells us about wages, incentives to work, and education. Every working day in the United States, 90 ...

Growth, capital and new technologies

Eds. Matilde Mas, Paul Schreyer. During the 1990s, the United States experienced an upsurge in economic growth. Despite the fact that some of this acceleration was of a pure cyclical nature, more long-term structural explanations were also proposed, in particular the role of information and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Theories and practices of development

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

The economics of illegal immigration