Japanese economic development

markets, norms, structures

What are the possibilities for and conditions of global security in the 21st century? This book provides an innovative study of future wars, crises and transformations of the global political economy. It brings together economic theory, political economy, peace and conflict research, philosophy and historical ...

The resistible rise of market fundamentalism

rethinking development policy in an unbalanced world

In this empirical analysis of the world economy during the past 20 years, two eminent economists put aside the rhetoric surrounding the neoliberal argument and examine what has actually taken place. Focussing on trade, financial flows and foreign direct investment, they find that economic forces ...

Growth divergences

explaining differences in economic performance

The last three decades have been characterized by a paradox of greater international economic integration but divergent economic performance. In contrast to the 1950s and 1960s, most developing countries have lagged far behind developed economies, but this growing North-South gap has been masked by the ...

Salida de crisis y estrategias alternativas de desarrollo

la experiencia argentina

Cuando luego de largos años de recesión estalló la crisis de la convertibilidad en diciembre de 2001, varios colegas franceses nucleados en universidades parisinas y en el CEPREMAP organizaron talleres en París para analizar esos acontecimientos; así investigadores de ambos países, Argentina y Francia, trataban ...

Políticas macroeconómicas para países en desarrollo

Coords. María Guadalupe Mántey de Anguiano, Noemi Ornah Levy Orlik. El fracaso de las políticas neoliberales, particularmente en América Latina, mueve a considerar otros enfoques macroeconómicos que, como el estructuralismo latinoamericano, la teoría poskeynesiana, la teoría de los mercados de trabajo, la teoría del crecimiento ...

Deep economy

economics as if the world mattered

In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first time in human history, he observes, "more" is no longer synonymous with "better" - indeed, for many of us, they have ...

Development and globalization

a Marxian class analysis

Through a series of concrete examples, this collection shows how Marxian class analysis can be used to challenge existing modes of thought and produce new insights about the problems of capitalist development.

Las formas elementales de la pobreza

¿Qué tienen en común la pobreza entre los distintos países de Europa, la pobreza de los barrios conflictivos de nuestras ciudades y la de las xonas rurales, la pobreza de los años sesenta y la actual?¿De quién y de qué hablamos en nuestras sociedades ...

Growth and development

with special reference to developing economies

For over thirty years, this classic text has offered students a comprehensive overview of the economic aspects of growth and development which is clearly written without sacrificing rigour. The focus is on macroeconomic issues with unique chapters on the history of economic thought, project appraisal ...

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, Politics, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body of ...

Geography and economy

three lectures

This book focuses on the theme of the mutually constitutive relations between geographic space and the economic order. Three principle lines of investigation are identified and explored. First, Allen J. Scott sketches out the general theory of the division of labour and the ways in ...

El proceso tecnológico y el reparto de la productividad en España

El resurgimiento de los estudios de largo plazo aparece en un momento en el que se amplía y profundiza el eslabonamiento intersectorial, cambia la estructura productiva modificando las formas y métodos de producción que refuerzan el uso de productos electrónicos, informáticos, telecomunicaciones, químicos, entre otros ...

Economic development

In this fourth edition of his textbook, E. Wayne Nafziger analyzes the economic development of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and East-Central Europe. This comprehensive and clearly written text explains the growth in real income per person and income disparities within and between developing countries. The ...

Evolution of markets and institutions

a study of an emerging economy

The new institutional economics has been one of the most influential schools of thought to emerge in the past quarter century. Taking its roots in the transaction cost theory of the firm as an economic organization rather than purely a production function, it has been ...

The production of knowledge

the challenge of social science research

Bill Starbuck has been one of the leading management researchers over several decades. In this book, he reflects on a number of challenges associated with management and social science research - the search for a 'behavioral science', the limits of rationality, the unreliability of many research ...

Understanding poverty

Brings together essays by thirty-four leading economists about important things they have learnt from their research that relate to poverty. These essays range from the impact of colonialism and globalization to the future of micro-credit and the quest for vaccines.

Economic development

Índice: I. PRINCIPLES AND CONCEPTS. 1. Economics, Institutions, and Development: A Global Perspective. 2. Comparative Development: Differences and Commonalities among Developing Countries. 3. Classic Theories of Economic Development. 4. Contemporary Models of Development and Underdevelopment. II. PROBLEMS AND POLICIES: DOMESTIC. 5. Poverty, Inequality, and Development ...

Los límites del crecimiento

30 años después

La humanidad puede y debe responder a las señales que indican que el crecimiento mundial alcanza ya unos niveles insostenibles. Ha llegado el momento de buscar soluciones políticas, económicas y sociales para alejar el mundo del borde del abismo al que se asoma. Los límites ...

Globalization and organization

world society and organizational change

All around the world, societies are experiencing an explosion of organizations and organizing: community clubs, religious groups, social movements, as well as schools, hospitals, businesses and government agencies, increasingly take the form of complex and formal organization. Why? Why is global society recast in this ...

Institutions, development, and economic growth

Leading international economists discuss how and why institutions influence growth. This work talks about the empirical and theoretical studies that provide an overview and contribute to the current research. The determinants of economic growth and development are hotly debated among economists. Financial crises and failed ...