A theory of interregional dynamics

models of capital, knowledge and economic structures

Economic development

This best-selling text offers a unique policy-oriented approach that uses models and concepts to illustrate real-world development problems. Retaining its hallmark accessibility throughout, the Eighth Edition uses the most current data, offering full coverage of recent advances in the field, and featuring a balanced presentation ...

Dynamic programming in economics

Dynamic Programming in Economics is an outgrowth of a course intended for students in the first year PhD program and for researchers in Macroeconomics Dynamics. It can be used by students and researchers in Mathematics as well as in Economics. The purpose of Dynamic Programming ...

Producción, productividad y crecimiento

El libro que el lector tiene ante sí contiene la totalidad de los trabajos presentados en el curso #Producción, productividad y crecimiento# que se desarrolló en julio del 2002, en el marco de la universidad de verano de la Univesitat de Lleida. Además, hay que ...

Public debt and endogenous growth

This book considers public debt dynamics in various endogenous growth models, namely the AK model and explicit models of innovation and human capital accumulation. Furthermore, the closed economy, the small open economy and a two-country world are analysed. In the closed economy model, the focus ...

Developement policy as public finance

How to raise and spend revenues in order to promote development in practice involves second-best considerations, which the analysis of the role of international trade, liberalization, and other economic reforms must take into account. Particular emphasis is placed on social cost- benefit analysis as a ...

Development planning and poverty reduction

The aim of development is always poverty reduction but the devil is in the detail and planning impacts heavily on the results. This study examines and evaluates macroeconomic strategies and their effectiveness in truly reducing poverty

The IMF and economic development

Why do governments turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and with what effects? This book argues that governments enter IMF programs for economic and political reasons, and finds that the effects are negative on economic growth and income distribution. By bringing in the IMF ...

La moderna economía del crecimiento

Este libro es una introducción a la economía del crecimiento a largo plazo. En él se hace un repaso de las diferentes aportaciones desde los autores clásicos, con especial énfasis en los modelos que han significado importantes avances en la literatura del crecimiento económico desde ...

Promises not kept

poverty and the betrayal of Third World development

The 6th edition of this very accessible introductory text - the first to be published by Palgrave Macmillan - has been revised throughout to take account of the 'new American hegemony' and 'war on terrorism' of the early 21st century. Presenting a wide range of up-to-date facts ...

Democracy, governance and economic performance

theory and evidence

In this book Yi Feng combines political and economic analyses to study the effects of political institutions on economic performance. Traditionally, political scientists disregard details of economic conditions, while economists may not take into consideration a systematic explanation of political regimes. The growing interest in ...

Perspectives on growth and poverty

The relationship between growth and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. While many see aggregate growth as both necessary and sufficient for reducing poverty, and consequently focus their efforts on achieving the desired macroeconomic outcomes, others stress that the benefits from growth may ...

Developing countries

definitions, concepts and comparisons

La deuda externa del mundo en desarrollo

teoría, realidad y alternativas

La deuda externa es una de las cuestiones centrales en la explicación de la realidad que vive en el presente el mundo en desarrollo. En los ultimos años ha sido, afortunadamente, objeto de un amplio debate social, que le ha despojado de la mirada exclusivamente ...

The Cambridge controversies in capital theory

A study in the logic of theory development

This book explains the debate over the Cambridge controversies of the 1960s and 1970s. In a compelling and comprehensive argument, Birner discusses the main contributions to the controversy in a series of case studies. He gradually develops a methodological model of idealizations that explains both ...

Coordination and growth

essays in Honour of Simon Kuipers

Econometrics

.V.3. Economic growth in the information age

The decline in the prices of information technology (IT) has enhanced the role of IT investment as a source of economic growth in the US. This text shows that IT provides the foundation for the resurgence of American economic growth. Information technology rests in turn ...

Technology and the new economy

Economic policy reform

the second stage

The papers and commentary collected here constitute a vital discussion of contemporary thinking on economic policy reform, in particular the difficulties that leave so much of the world seemingly mired in poverty. Distinguished contributors address issues ranging from education and privatization to exchange rates and ...

The elusive quest for growth

economists' adventures and misadventures in the Tropics