Información comercial española. revista de economía, Nº 800, 2002

.Nº 800: Desarrollo sostenible

The nature of economic growth

an alternative framework for understanding the performance of nations

This text charts development economics as it evolved from Adam Smith to new or endogenous growth theory. Thirlwall is critical of the latter, and its predecessor neo-classical growth theory, and tries to put back demand as a driving force in growth theory.

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 ...

Conversations on growth, stability and trade

an historical perspective

Monetary stability and economic growth

a dialog between leading economists

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 ...

The elusive quest for growth

economists' adventures and misadventures in the Tropics

El crecimiento ecónomico y las artes

Los paises con mayor tradición cultural obvian a menudo el estudio de la Economía de la Cultura. Este ensayo pone de manifiesto la necesidad de cubrir ese vacío. Nosólo porque el análisis de la cultura desde la perspectiva económica contribuye a mejorar la política cultural ...

Desarrollo sostenible en un mundo dinámico

Transformación de instituciones, crecimiento y calidad de vida.

El informe sobre el Desarrollo mundial 2003 examina la relación entre objetivos políticos en competencia -reducir la pobreza, mantener el crecimiento, mejorar la cohesión social y proteger el medio ambiente- en un horizonte de 50 años. El informe observa que se han identificado muchas políticas ...

The free-market innovation machine

analyzing the growth miracle of capitalism

Economic integration and development

has regionalism delivered for developing countries?

Questions related to the economics of regionalism became increasingly important beginning in the late 1980s, when regional groupings started to become for more popular as a tool of commercial policy. The goal of this text is to address the question of whether or not regionalism ...

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 nature of economic growth

an alternative framework for understanding the performance of nations

This text charts development economics as it evolved from Adam Smith to "new" or endogenous growth theory. Thirlwall is critical of the latter, and its predecessor neo-classical growth theory, and tries to put back demand as a driving force in growth theory.

El desafío de la pobreza

Esta obra plasma el desafio que hoy enfrentan los gobiernos y la sociedad civil en América Latina: La construcción de propuestas de sociedad equitativas y abiertas a la globalización.

Cycles, growth and structural change

This volume gathers together key new contributions on the subject of the relationship, both empirical and theoretical, between economic oscillations, growth and structural change. Employing a sophisticated level of mathematical modelling, the collection contains articles from, amongst others, William Baumol, Katsuhito Iwai and William Brock.

The spirit of capitalism

nationalism and economic growth

The Spirit of Capitalism answers a fundamental question of economics, a question neither economists nor economic historians have been able to answer: what are the reasons (rather than just the conditions) for sustained economic growth? Taking her title from Max Weber's famous study on ...

Economics of development

This textbook, from present and past members of the Harvard Institute of International Development, emphasizes sustainable development, trade and industrialization, and managing an open economy.

Emprendedores, microempresas y microcréditos

una propuesta para el desarrollo del Perú

Desde la Informalidad, que es ruptura y creación a la vez, han nacido tres figuras esenciales para luchar contra la pobreza e iniciar el desarrollo: los emprendedores, las microempresas y los microcréditos. Los emprendedores, surgidos desde las mayorías, han demostrado que son los nuevos sujetos ...

Trade, development and the environment

In recent years the relationships between trade and the environment, and trade and development, have become increasingly complex. The need to reconcile the competing demands of economic growth, economic development, and environmental protection has become central to the multilateral trade agenda. In this volume various ...