structure, innovation and firm size 98 -- 7 Employment growth in metropolitan areas 115 -- 8 Employment, wages and R …This new and original book by Zoltan Acs explores the relationship between industrial innovation and economic growth at … the growth of cities by the use of endogenous growth theory …

Knowledge, Technological Catch-up and Economic Growth investigates the relationship between knowledge diffusion and … economic growth. Using a broad definition of knowledge - encompassing technology, production skills, know-how and firm … growth. Mark Rogers uses both neoclassical and endogenous growth models to construct testable hypotheses in order to gauge …

innovative book, Frank Hettich uses dynamic modelling to study the interactions between economic growth, environmental policy and … tax reform. He incorporates pollution and abatement technologies into different endogenous growth models that take into … economic growth? * does environmental taxation provide an efficient source of revenue for governments? * how will higher …

Institutional and Social Dynamics of Growth and Distribution presents a set of original contributions to the much …-debated issues of long-run economic growth in relation to institutional and social progress …Institutions and the beginning of economic growth in eighteenth-century Britain -- The coevolution of institutions and …

The historic link between output (GDP) growth and employment has weakened. Since there is no quantitively verifiable … economic theory to explain past growth, this unique book explores the fundamental relationship between thermodynamics (physical … conversion to useful work -- ch. 5. Economic growth theories -- ch. 6. The production function approach. -- ch. 7. Numerical …

Frequent references are made to the 'Asian economic miracle' as a means of describing the wave of GDP growth … Japan - have long reached a level of GDP beyond which further growth is detrimental to their sustainable welfare while the … requires the wealthy nations to focus on qualitative improvement (development) rather than GDP growth. As for the poorer …

information about China's economy after WTO accession and analyses many important issues concerning China's economic growth …pt. I. Economic growth and globalization -- pt. 2. Foreign direct investment and exchange rate -- pt. 3. Agricultural …

1. The theory and measurement of trade liberalisation -- 2. Trade liberalisation, trade performance and economic growth … -- 3. Trade liberalisation and international inequality -- 4. Trade liberalisation, poverty and domestic inequality -- 5 …