Asks and answers the question: What are the economic conditions a society must satisfy in order to exist and survive? Focusing on macro factors to understand the problem of poor countries, this book also offers a presentation of economic history in a world perspective, using survival-conditions...

Most occupational choice models introduce only two options for agents: entrepreneurial activities or wage-employment. However, these models represent inadequately the labor force distribution from developing countries, where an important proportion of the total work force are self-employed...

The sources of economic growth and development have been puzzling economists from the modern dawn of the profession. While the Solow-Swan neo-classical model dominated research on growth in the 1960s and 1970s, the 1980s saw the emergence of growth theories that disputed, largely on theoretical...