Finance, intermediaries, and economic developement

This volume includes ten essays dealing with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century. Each relates the development of institutions to economic change and describes their evolution over time, as well as discussing several ...

Poverty and exclusion in North and South

essays on social policy and global poverty reduction

Since 1990 there has been a worrying increase in poverty in the industrialized countries of the "North", while many of the developing countries of the "South" have experienced some improvement. This collection argues that there are a number of likenesses between the predicaments of North ...

Economic growth

After an introductory discussion of economic growth, the book examines neoclassical growth theories, from Solow-Swan in the 1950s and Cass- Koopmans in the 1960s to more recent refinements; this is followed by a discussion of extensions to the model, with expanded treatment in this edition ...

The sources of economic growth in OECD countries

This work presents an in-depth reflection on the sources of ecomic growth. What drove economic growth in the OECD countries? What effects have developments, such as globalization and international terrorism, had on the determinants of growth? How, and how much, does government activity contribute to ...

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 ...

Structural impediments to growth in Japan

As the much-lauded "miracle" of Japan's stunning economic growth has ground down into a seemingly unshakeable economic stagnation, analysts have focused their attention on the underlying systems that present obstacles to continued success. In this, the first book-length academic treatment of this important issue ...

Political economy of transition and development

institutions, politics and policies

The economic and political transition in Central and Eastern Europe has now entered its second decade. Although the post-communist countries shared many similarities at the outset of the transition, their economic and political experiences have been strongly divergent. Some countries succeeded in stabilizing their economies ...

Development in theory and practice

Latin American perspectives

This definitive reader brings together seminal articles on development in Latin America. Tracing the concepts and major debates surrounding the issue, the text focuses on development theory through three contrasting historical perspectives: imperialism, underdevelopment and dependency, and globalization. By offering a rich array of essays ...

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 ...

Coordination and growth

essays in Honour of Simon Kuipers

Macroeconomia en la economia global

Technology and the new economy

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 ...

The elusive quest for growth

economists' adventures and misadventures in the Tropics

The nature of economic growth

an alternative framework for understanding the performance of nations

This concise book, by one of the leading scholars in development economics, has been developed from a series of lectures given to masters students and will serve as an excellent introduction to the principles of growth and development theory. The author presents conventional wisdom with ...

The free-market innovation machine

analyzing the growth miracle of capitalism

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 ...

Producción e incertidumbre en equilibrio general dinámico

Producción e Incertidumbre en equilibrio General Dinámico" recoge, de manera rigurosa aunque eludiendo la excesiva abstracción en el tratamiento, los principales aspectos y cuestiones a tener en cuenta cuando la producción y la incertidumbre son consideradas dentro del Equilibrio general Competitivo. Junto a los resultados ...

Systemic transformation, trade and economic growth

developments, theoretical analysis and empirical results

Since the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Central and Eastern European Countries (CEESs) have been involved in the transition process. This book compares the progress of some of these economies in transition and analyses their ...