Consumption structure and macroeconomics

structural change and the relationship between inequality and growth

This book offers a novel perspective that allows to incorporate changing consumption and production structure into models of economic growth. Starting from the empirical observation that income and consumption structure are closely related, it develops a tractable theoretical framework which enables to analyze macroeconomic models ...

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 ...

La historia cuenta

del crecimiento económico del desarrollo humano sostenible

El esfuerzo por cambiar el mundo nunca es en balde.El desarrollo humano es una conquista social,no una secreción cutánea generada por el aumento de la circulación mercantil y la actividad del Estado a la que llamamos crecimiento económico.La crisis ecológica impone,además ...

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 ...

The broken mosaic

for an economics beyond equations

This cogent critique of the narrowness and moral blindness of conventional economics,and its distance from any genuine concern for people's lives,is part autobiographical reflection and part summation of a lifetime's work in developing countries.Ladislau Dowbor rejects both old-fashioned statist economics ...

Modelos de desarrollo económico en América Latina

desequilibrio externo y concentración de riqueza

El objetivo fundamental de este libro estriba en analizar los diferentes modelos de desarrollo económico que se han ido manifestando en el transcurso de la historia económica latinoamericana a lo largo del siglo pasado. En el período analizado, las economías latinoamericanas estuvieron sometidas a profundas ...

Bridging research and policy in development

evidence and the change process

This is a crucial book for international development researchers who want the lessons of their research converted into changes in government and aid agency policy. International policy making, with actors from different countries involved, is extremely complex and - when some of the actors are developing ...

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 ...

Handbook of economic growth

"The Handbooks in Economics" series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks, which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement. "The Handbook of Economic Growth", edited by Philippe Aghion ...

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 ...

Social science knowledge and economic development

an institutional design perspective

El capital humano y su contribución al crecimiento económico

un análisis para Castilla-La Mancha

Los micropréstamos como instrumentos de desarrollo en el sur

especial referencia al ámbito latinoamericano

Principles of environmental eeconomics

Can economic growth be environmentally sustainable? This crucial question goes right to the heart of environmental economics and is a matter of increasing concern globally. The first edition of this popular title was the first introductory textbook in environmental economics that truly attempted to integrate ...

The economics of adjustment and growth

This book provides a systematic and coherent framework for understanding the interactions between the micro and macro dimensions of economic adjustment policies; that is, it explores short-run macroeconomic management and structural adjustment policies aimed at promoting economic growth. It emphasizes the importance of structural microeconomic ...

Municipalities and finance

a sourcebook for capacity building

Surveys in economic growth

theory and empirics

This volume discusses recent work on economic growth from both theoretical and empirical points of view. * An in--depth discussion of recent work on economic growth. * Keeps readers abreast of the central ideas in the field. * Presents both theoretical and empirical points of view. * Accessible to ...

Divergent dynamics of economic growth

studies in adaptative economizing, technology change and economic developement

This book explains how changing technology and economizing behavior induce vast changes in productivity, resource allocation, labor utilization, and patterns of living. Economic growth is seen as a process by which businesses, regimes, countries, and the whole world pass through distinct epochs, each one emerging ...

International finance and the developing economies

There are many challenges facing the economies of developing countries. Capital volatility, financial crises, aid, debt and the IMF are all issues that have received a great deal of attention over recent years. In International Finance and the Developing Economies, Graham Bird provides an essentially ...