THE DIVERGENT DYNAMICS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH

This book explains howchanging technology and economizing behavior induce vast changes in productivity, resource allocation, labor utilization, and patterns of living. Economic growth is seen as a process by which businesses, regimes, countries, and the wholeworld pass through distinct epochs, each one emerging from its predecessor and creating the conditions for its successor. Viewed from a long-run perspective, growth must be characterized as an explosive process marked by turbulent transitions in social and political life as societies adapt to new opportunities, the demise of old ways of living, and the vast increase and redistribution of human populations. The book is based on a new and unique synthesis of classical economics and contemporary concepts of adaptation and economic evolution. Although it is grounded in analytical methods, the text has been stripped of all equations and with few exceptions is devoid of technical jargon.

CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments and Comments

1. The Adaptive, Evolutionary Theory of Divergent Economic Growth part one. global trends and adaptive economics
2. Global Trends,World Models, and Human Adaptation
3. Adaptive Economic Theory and Modeling part two. technological change in agricultura and industry
4. The Economics of Technological Change and the Demise of the Sharecropper
5. Economic Development as an Adaptive Process: A Green Revolution Case Study
6. Industrial Development and Technological Change
7. An Adaptive Economizing Analysis of Chinese Enterprises Under Alternative Reform Regimes
8. Economic Development and Migration
9. Instability in the Transition from Manorialism: A Classical Analysis 1
10. Do Economies Diverge? Economic Development in the Very Long Run
11. Economics Far from Equilibrium
12. The Dialectical Republic: Toward a General Theory of the Coevolution of Market and State

Index

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Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :2003
ISBN : 978-0-511-07134-8
Editorial : Cambridge University
Autor: Richard H. Day



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GROWTH AND EMPOWERMENT

This book originated in a set of lectures that I gave in Munich, Germany, in November 2002, on the occasion of my appointment as Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Economic Studies at Ludwig- Maximilian University. It is part of the annual series of those lectures published by the MIT Press. Jean-Jacques Dethier and Halsey Rogers, two of my close colleagues at the World Bank, have collaborated with me throughout the research and writing of this book.

CONTENTS
Series Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Brief Guide to These Lecture


1. Living Standards and Poverty
2. Development as a Process of Change
3. Lessons of Development Policy
4. Lessons from Development Theory
5. A Strategy for Development
6. Data and Measurement as Drivers of Change
7. The Dynamics of the Investment Climate
8. The Dynamics of Empowerment
9. The Dynamics of Preferences
10. The Dynamics of Political Reform
11. The Challenge
12. Domestic Action: Public Finances and the Role of the State
13. International Action: Trade and Aid

Conclusion
Plan of Action
Notes
References
Index

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Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :2006
ISBN : 978-0262693462
Editorial : The MIT
Autor: Nicholas Stern, F. Halsey Rogers, Jean-Jacques Dethier

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ECONOMICS FOR AN IMPERFECT WORLD

Throughout Joseph Stiglitz's long and distinguished career in economics, the focus has been on the real world, with all of its imperfections. His 2001 Nobel Prize recognized his pioneering research in imperfect information; his work in other areas, including macroeconomics, public economics, and development economics, has been just as influential. This volume, a collection of essays written to mark Stiglitz's sixtieth birthday, reflects the wide-ranging influence of "Stiglitzian" economics. The many distinguished contributors are his teachers, students, and coauthors; their participation testifies to the personal and professional impact of Joseph Stiglitz's contributions to contemporary economic thought.

CONTENTS

Introduction
1 Joseph E. Stiglitz and Economics for an Imperfect World
2 A Small Pearl for Doctor Stiglitz’s Sixtieth Birthday: When Risk Averters Positively Relish ‘‘Excess Volatility’’ Faith in Insurance Contracting
4 Markets under Stress: The Case of Extreme Event Insurance
5 Per-Mile Premiums for Auto Insurance
6 Capital Adequacy Regulation: In Search of a Rationale
7 Learning Revisited
8 Regulating Nonlinear Environmental Systems under Knightian Uncertainty
9 Conflicting Preferences and Voluntary Restrictions on Choices
10 Punctuality: A Cultural Trait as Equilibrium
11 A Few Righteous Men: Imperfect Information, Quit-for-Tat, and Critical Mass in the Dynamics of Cooperation
12 Market Structure, Organizational Structure, and R&D Diversity
13 Patent Oppositions
14 The Economics of Vertical Restraints
15 Stumbling Toward a Macroeconomics of the Medium Run
16 Waiting for Work
17 Welfare Economics in Imperfect Economies
18 Optimality or Sustainability?
19 Labor Market Flexibility and the Welfare State
20 The Fiscal Politics of Big Governments: Do Coalitions Matter?
21 Indirect Taxation and Redistribution: The Scope of the Atkinson- Stiglitz Theorem
22 Optimum Income Taxation When Earnings Are Imperfectly Correlated with Productivity
23 Can Government Collect Resources without Hurting Investors? Taxation of Returns from Assets
24 Reforming the Taxation of Human Capital: A Modest Proposalfor Promoting Economic Growth
25 Birth, Recoveries, Vaccinations, and Externalities
26 The Road Less Traveled: Oligopoly and Competition Policy in General Equilibrium
27 Trade, Geography, and Monopolistic Competition: Theory and an Application to Spatial Inequalities in Developing Countries
28 Public Policy for Growth and Poverty Reduction
29 Risk, Reform, and Privatization
30 Can Privatization Come Too Soon? Politics after the Big Bang in Post-Communist Societies
Appendix
31 Information and the Change in the Paradigm in Economics
32 Joseph E. Stiglitz Bibliography
Index

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Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :2003
ISBN : 978-0262012058
Editorial : MIT Press
Autor: Richard Arnott, Bruce Greenwald, Ravi Kanbur , Barry Nalebuff

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INTRODUCTION TO MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH

Introduction to Modern Economic Growth is a groundbreaking text from one of today's leading economists. Daron Acemoglu gives graduate students not only the tools to analyze growth and related macroeconomic problems, but also the broad perspective needed to apply those tools to the big-picture questions of growth and divergence. And he introduces the economic and mathematical foundations of modern growth theory and macroeconomics in a rigorous but easy to follow manner.

CONTENTS
Part 1. Introduction
Part 2. Towards Neoclassical Growth
Part 3. Neoclassical Growth
Part 4. Endogenous Technological Change
Part 5. Stochastic Growth
Part 6. Technology Diffusion, Trade and Interdependences
Part 7. Economic Development and Economic Growth
Part 8. Political Economy of Growth
Part 9. Mathematical Appendices

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Formato : PDF.
Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :2008
ISBN : 978-0691132921
Editorial : Princeton University
Autor Daron Acemoglu

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