Apuntes de crecimiento económico

Estas notas pretenden poner al alcance del estudiante de economía una descripción razonada del estado actual del pensamiento económico en temas de crecimiento. Se trata de los apuntes de los cursos impartidos por el profesor Sala-i-Martin en las universidades de Columbia, Harvard, Pompeu Fabra y ...

The Mystery of Capital

why capitalism triumphs in the west and fails everywhere else

Agent-based computer simulation of dichotomous economic growth.

Endogenous growth theory

Aghion and Howitt is a real breakthrough in growth economics. This book has profound implications and should be read by anyone who is serious about studying economic growth" -- Nicholas Crafts, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science Advanced economies have experienced ...

The role of government in East Asian economic development

comparative institutional analysis

The role of government in East Asian economic development has been a continuous issue. Two competing views have shaped enquiries into the source of the rapid growth high-performing Asian economies and attempts to derive a general lesson for other developing economies: the market-friendly view, according ...

Economía para un mundo en desarrollo

introducción a los principios, problemas y políticas para el desarrollo

La intención del autor fue proporcionar una introducción a la economía, pertinente y significativa, para los estudiantes de economía en los países en desarrollo. Todaro considera que los estudiantes de esas regiones tiene que estudiar con textos que no reflejan la realidad de sus países ...

Input-output economics

The only comprehensive introduction which Leontief has written to his model of Input-Output Economics, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1972. Many of the chapters have already appeared as articles in journals, but Leontief's writings have a range ...

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 ...