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, Policy Studies, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body ...

An agenda for a growing Europe

the Sapir report

Over the past decade European economic integration has seen considerable institutional success, but the economic performance of the EU has been varied. While macroeconomic stability has improved and an emphasis on cohesion preserved, the EU economic system has not delivered satisfactory growth performance. This book ...

Financing development

the power of regionalism

The historic 2002 United Nations Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, overlooked a crucial question: regionalism. Financing Development: The Power of Regionalism is designed to correct this omission. Editors Nancy Birdsall and Liliana Rojas-Suarez call for a more open and radical regionalism. They ...

Indices and indicators in development

an unherlthy obsession with numbers

The use of numbers to condense complex systems into easily digested 'bites' of information is very much in fashion. At one level they are intended to enhance transparency, accountability and local democracy, while at another they provide a means of enhancing performance. However, all indicators ...

China's Rural Market Development in the Reform Era

The rural market in China is not only the venue where 60 per cent of the country's 1.3 billion inhabitants buy their daily necessities and sell agricultural products, but also a key area of conflict between government control and liberalization policies. Previous research ...

Business cycles and economic growth

an analysis using leading indicators

This volume is a collection of articles on business cycles from researchers across the globe, covering a wide spectrum of issues from forecasting, monitoring, and measurement of economic activity

Las claves de la prosperidad

mercados libres, moneda estable y un poco de suerte

Rudiger Dornbusch se consideraba a sí mismo #setenta por ciento norteamericano, veinte por ciento latinoamericano y diez por ciento alemán#, y fue sin duda uno de los intelectuales más comprometidos con el estudio de las economías latinoamericanas. Abogó por propuestas creativas para resolver la crisis ...

Desigualdad y cambio industrial

una perspectiva global

El presente libro ofrece un análisis global de la distribución de la remuneración salarial,aportando nuevas medidas sistemáticas.Sus distintos capítulos abarcan desde la estructura salarial estadounidense de 1920 a 1998 hasta la desigualdad de la remuneración y el desempleo en Europa desde 1970,pasando ...

Growth recurring

economic change in world history

This important book compares the growth achieved in Japan and Europe with the frustrated growth in the major societies of mainland Eurasia. More broadly, it is about the conflict in world history between economic growth and political greed. Eric Jones proposes two fundamentally new frameworks ...

The Theory of economic growth

a "classical" perspective

Growth and development in the global economy

A theory of interregional dynamics

models of capital, knowledge and economic structures

Introduction to development economics

Finance, research, education and growth

Old and new growth theories

an assessment

Since the late 1980s, economic growth has again become a central topic in economic theorising. Recent endogenous growth theory has greatly contributed to the development of the field. "Old and New Growth Theories" analyses the most recent developments in the theory of economic growth and ...

African business finance and development policy

Developing countries

definitions, concepts and comparisons

Qué es el desarrollo internacional

Analytical development economics

the less developed economy revisited

In search of prosperity

analytic narratives on economic growth

The economics of growth has come a long way since it regained center stage for economists in the mid-1980s. Here for the first time is a series of country studies guided by that research. The thirteen essays, by leading economists, shed light on some of ...