Solomon's Knot

how Law can end the poverty of nations

Sustained growth depends on innovation, whether it's cutting-edge software from Silicon Valley, an improved assembly line in Sichuan, or a new export market for Swaziland's leather. Developing a new idea requires money, which poses a problem of trust. The innovator must trust the ...

Tecnología para el desarrollo humano, ayuda humanitaria y emergencias = Tecnologia per al desenvolupament humà, ajuda humanitària i emergències

actas de las Jornadas 7 y 8 de mayo de 2009 = actes de les Jornades 7 i 8 maig de 2009

Advantage

how american innovation can overcome the asian challenge

The emergence of India and China as economic powers has called into question the ability of the United States to compete and to maintain its technological lead. Advantage sorts out the challenges the US faces and focuses on what drives innovation, what constrains it and ...

Economic analysis of environmental policy

The relationship between economic growth and the environment is at the forefront of public attention and poses serious challenges for policymakers around the world. Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy, a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, provides a rigorous and thorough explanation of modern ...

Desarrollo e integración

la nueva geopolítica de la economía global

Coords. Dejan Mihailovic, Alexis Toribio Dantas. Los temas de desarrollo e integración tratados en este volumen se inscriben en la crisis del capitalismo global. La concentración del poder en grandes corporaciones transnacionales y la constante metamorfosis de los poderes estatales plantean con insistencia la cuestión ...

Economics of development

The 9th edition of Thirlwall's 'Economics of Development: Theory and Evidence' (formerly Growth and Development) represents the most thorough revision of this classic textbook to date. For nearly forty years, it has offered students a clear, comprehensive and rigorous overview of the economic aspects ...

Consumptionomics

Asia's role in reshaping capitalism and saving the planet

Consumption has been the fuel that has driven the engine of global capitalism. The recent financial crisis has seen the West's leading economists and policy makers urging Asia to make a conscious effort to consume more and thereby help save the global economy. This ...

Economic growth

theory and numerical solution methods

This is a book on deterministic and stochastic Growth Theory and the computational methods needed to produce numerical solutions. Exogenous and endogenous growth models are thoroughly reviewed. Special attention is paid to the use of these models for fiscal and monetary policy analysis. Modern Business ...

Desarrollo y crecimiento en la economía mexicana

una perspectiva histórica

Éste es un tratado exhaustivo y sistemático sobre la historia económica del México independiente, con énfasis en los últimos setenta años. Los autores, dos destacados expertos en economía mexicana, examinan las actuales políticas de crecimiento y sus problemas desde una perspectiva histórica, revisan las tendencias ...

Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio

un compromiso con los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales

Is economic growth sustainable?

Ed. Geoffrey Heal. Is growth sustainable? Can we maintain current standards of living in the face of environmental changes? As the world economy is shaken by the global recession, these questions become even more critical. This book focuses on the problems that relate to the ...

Desarrollo y transformación

opciones para América Latina

Coords. Gregorio Vidal, Arturo Guillén, José Déniz. Después de un largo periodo de bajo crecimiento, América Latina registró desde 2003 un aumento sostenido en su producción que permitió mejoras en los ingresos medios por habitante. Como se analiza en este libro, los buenos resultados son ...

Decrecimiento o barbarie

para una salida noviolenta del capitalismo

Development

The concept of development has never been in greater need of analysis and clarification than in the present era. Just about everyone is 'for' development as an assumed 'good', yet few seem to have a concrete idea of what the term actually entails. Development offers ...

Codesarrollo

migraciones y desarrollo mundial

Auts. Luis V. Abad...[et.al]. E n un momento en que las migraciones están en boca de todos, el codesarrollo suscita cada vez mayor interés como un posible medio para salvar las fronteras que separan a los paí­ses más necesitados de ...

Gestión y promoción del desarrollo local

Acompaña CD-ROM. Durante las últimas dos décadas, han ido adquiriendo importancia estrategias de gestión y promoción del desarrollo de los territorios en las que la sociedad y las instituciones locales son a la vez impulsores y protagonistas. De este modo, ha emergido un nuevo paradigma ...

España en contraste. Vol.II

Crecimiento económico

Dirs. Emilio Ontiveros, Francisco J. Valero, Sara Baliña. La aproximación a los cambios estructurales que han tenido lugar en el modelo de crecimiento de la economía española en las dos últimas décadas constituye el propósito último del segundo volumen de un proyecto, que se iniciaba ...

Innovation, intellectual property, and economic growth

What drives innovation? How does it contribute to the growth of firms, industries, and economies? And do intellectual property rights help or hurt innovation and growth? Uniquely combining microeconomics, macroeconomics, and theory with empirical analysis drawn from the United States and Europe, this book introduces ...

Postcapitalism

moving beyond ideology in America's economic crises

Debates over the role of government have intensified in the wake of America's deepest financial crisis since the Depression. This book suggests new ways of moving forward based on the policies and principles that have worked in the past. Sassower shows how American pragmatism ...

Globalization and competition

why some emergent countries succeed while others fall behind

Globalization and Competition explains why some middle-income countries, principally those in Asia, grow fast while others are not successful. The author criticizes both old-style developmentalism and the economics of the Washington Consensus. He argues instead for a 'new developmentalism' or third approach that builds on ...