This book investigates the growth of an economy with management-controlled corporations. It begins by studying the behaviour of a corporation whose management maximizes the rate of growth constrained by the threat of takeover, and in which research and development efforts are ma…
La présentation de l'éditeur : "Examina a grande pressão que o mundo desenvolvido exerce sobre os países em desenvolvimento para que adotem certas "políticas boas e instituições boas". Adota uma abordagem histórica para constatar que a evolução dos países atualmente desenvolvido…
Examina a grande pressão que o mundo desenvolvido exerce sobre os países em desenvolvimento para que adotem certas "políticas boas e instituições boas". Adota uma abordagem histórica para constatar que a evolução dos países atualmente desenvolvidos, difere extraordinariamente do…
A leading political economist advances a new theory to explain the postwar shifts in the relative economic fortunes and positions of various nations and regions.
A leading political economist advances a new theory to explain the postwar shifts in the relative economic fortunes and positions of various nations and regions.
What has dictated the rate and direction of technological change? How central has it been to industrial progress? How has it related to other determinants of economic growth and development? In Technology and Industrial Progress, Dr von Tunzelmann examines theoretical views on t…
What has dictated the rate and direction of technological change? How central has it been to industrial progress? How has it related to other determinants of economic growth and development? In Technology and Industrial Progress, Dr von Tunzelmann examines theoretical views on t…
This volume seeks to deepen our understanding of the complex and constantly evolving ways in which modern capitalism, in the age of globalisation, works. It explains and illuminates the processes, institutions and policies involved.
This volume seeks to deepen our understanding of the complex and constantly evolving ways in which modern capitalism, in the age of globalisation, works. It explains and illuminates the processes, institutions and policies involved.
Why has capitalism produced economic growth that so vastly dwarfs the growth record of other economic systems, past and present? Why have living standards in countries from America to Germany to Japan risen exponentially over the past century? William Baumol rejects the conventi…