Food grain procurement and consumption in China

This book, first published in 1984, looks at the way in which food grains still provided the overwhelming proportion of food intake in China. In common with other countries at a similar stage of economic development, there was a marked rise in the demand for ...

The rise and decline of nations

economic growth, stagflation and social rigidities

The years since World War II have seen rapid shifts in the relative positions of different countries and regions. Leading political economist Mancur Olson offers a new and compelling theory to explain these shifts in fortune and then tests his theory against evidence from many ...

Aspectos del desarrollo y el subdesarrollo

En el último cuarto de siglo ha sido posible observar grandes progresos en los países en vías de desarrollo; el crecimiento económico ha llevado a un aumento en el ingreso per capita, a una expansión sin precedentes de la educación y a un crecimiento semejante ...