The white man's burden

why the west's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little Good

We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy the T-shirt and are moved as individuals and governments to dig deep into our pockets. Yet what happens to ...

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 ...

The political economy of fiscal policy

public deficits, volatility, and growth

One of the most striking macroeconomic developments during the last three decades is the rise and persistence of large fiscal deficits in a number of countries. Despite recent major fiscal reforms around the world, many countries suffer from recurrent large fiscal imbalances that often reflect ...

Monetary and fiscal policies in the Euro Area

This book studies the interactions between monetary and fiscal policies in the euro area. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on competition between the European central bank, the American central ...

Applying the dismal science

when economists give advice to governments

In this exciting collection, Iain McLean and Colin Jennings bring together some of the most eminent social scientists to have advised British governments since 1964. Successive chapters show what went wrong in UK economic policy making in the 1960s and 1970s, what goes better now ...

Innovative comparative methods for policy analysis

beyond the quantitative-qualitative divide

Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis aims to provide a decisive push to the further development and application of innovative and specific comparative methods for the improvement of policy analysis. To take on this challenge, this volume brings together methodologists and specialists from a broad ...

Welfare economics and social choice theory

Table of Contents: 1 Preferences and utility 2 Barter exchange 3 Welfare properties of market exchange 4 Welfare properties of "jungle" exchange 5 Economies with production 6 Uncertainty in exchange 7 Externalities 8 Public goods 9 Compensation criteria 10 Fairness and the rawls criterion 11 ...

The macroeconomics of fiscal policy

Leading academics and former policy makers assess the effectiveness of post-war American fiscal policy as questions about the role of fiscal policy once again come to the forefront of economic research and debate. The post- World War II emphasis on activist fiscal policy for short-term ...

Propuestas novedosas a la Política Regional de Innovación

Propuestas novedosas a la política regional de innovación tiene por objeto avanzar una propuesta atrevida de nueva Política Regional Comunitaria tendente a corregir los desequilibrios existentes en el esfuerzo innovador llevado a cabo por las distintas regiones europeas, y más concretamente en la mejora del ...

Dynamic modeling of monetary and fiscal cooperation among nations

"Dynamic Modeling of Monetary and Fiscal Cooperation Among Nations" analyzes coordination of monetary and fiscal stabilization policies between countries and currency areas using a dynamic game approach. The first four chapters introduce the reader to the dynamics of fiscal and monetary policy cooperation. Issues covered ...

Fedralism and economic reform

international perspectives

This collection focuses on the ways in which federalism has affected and been affected by economic reform, especially global integration. The editors and contributors focus in particular on the political economy of institutional and economic change - how the division of authority between national and subnational ...