Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. The Drive for Development -- Chapter 2. Enter local control -- Chapter 3. The force unleashed -- Part II. The Growth Mechanism -- Chapter 4. Hardware and software -- Chapter 5. Mechanization, automation and the labor market -- Chapter 6. Scale of operations --...

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This volume analyzes the economic, social, and political challenges that emerging states confront today. Notwithstanding the growing importance of the ‘emerging states’ in global affairs and governance, many problems requiring immediate...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. China’s Economic Reform Pattern: Fundamentals of “Infinite” Transition -- Chapter 3. Resources, Trends and Goals of Chinese Military Modernization -- Chapter 4. Limits for Continuity and Change in Political Transformations -- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

The innovative approach presented introduces a modified neoclassical growth model which includes a new bias of technological progress in a quasi-endogenous growth model in which part of labor is used in the research & development sector. The combination of a macroeconomic production function and...

The paper revisits the debate on trickle-down growth in view of the widely discussed evolution of the earnings and income distribution that followed a massive expansion of higher education. We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model to dynamically evaluate whether economic growth triggered...

In "The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment," Acemoglu and Restrepo (2018b) combine the task-based model of the labor market with an endogenous growth model to model the economic consequences of artificial intelligence (AI). This...

Chapter 1: Editors’ Introduction -- Part I: Expert Overviews -- Chapter 2: Developing Meaningful Composite Environmental Indices with DEA -- Chapter 3: Modelling the Generation of Pollutants in Environmental Economics -- Chapter 4: Environmental Productivity Growth in Consumer Durables -- Part...

1. Innovation in ASEAN countries -- 2. The Transformation of Embedded Means into Resources During Community-Based Venture Creation -- 3. Entrepreneurial Innovation Strategy in the Midst of Pandemic: A Case of Bersih Solution -- 4. Evolution of Entrepreneurship Development among Different...

This paper studies the interplay between left-handedness and economic development. To explain the decline and subsequent recovery of left-handedness observed over the last few centuries in the Western world, we propose a theory in which economic development influences the prevalence of...