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

Páginas : 237
Peso : 2mb.
Formato : PDF.
Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :2003
ISBN : 978-0-511-07134-8
Editorial : Cambridge University
Autor: Richard H. Day



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THE FABLE OF THE KEIRETSU

For Western economists and journalists, the most distinctive facet of the post-war Japanese business world has been the keiretsu, or the insular business alliances among powerful corporations. Within keiretsu groups, argue these observers, firms preferentially trade, lend money, take and receive technical and financial assistance, and cement their ties through cross-shareholding agreements. In The Fable of the Keiretsu, Yoshiro Miwa and J. Mark Ramseyer demonstrate that all this talk is really just urban legend.

In their insightful analysis, the authors show that the very idea of the keiretsu was created and propagated by Marxist scholars in post-war Japan. Western scholars merely repatriated the legend to show the culturally contingent nature of modern economic analysis. Laying waste to the notion of keiretsu, the authors debunk several related “facts” as well: that Japanese firms maintain special arrangements with a “main bank,” that firms are systematically poorly managed, and that the Japanese government guided post-war growth. In demolishing these long-held assumptions, they offer one of the few reliable chronicles of the realities of Japanese business.
  
CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments

1 Introduction
2 The Fable of the Keiretsu
3 And of the Zaibatsu
4 The Myth of the Main Bank
5 And of Outside Directors
6 Legends of Government Guidance
7 The Cost of Kipling

Notes
References
Index

Páginas : 192
Peso : 3mb.
Formato : PDF.
Edición : Primera
Año de Publicación :2006
ISBN : 978-0226532707
Editorial : University Of Chicago
Autor Yoshiro Miwa, J. Mark Ramseyer

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