'This book presents Latin America's innovation systems in a new theoretical and political light. The focus is upon how innovation processes can become inclusive; a major challenge for the non-egalitarian Latin American countries. The analytical framework combines Amartya Sen's capacity approach...

Contents: Part I Theory and evidence on finance and growth -- 1. Financial development and innovation-led growth / Phillippe Aghion, Peter Howitt and Ross Levine -- 2. Financial structure, economic growth and development / Franklin Allen, Xian Gu and Oskar Kowalewski -- 3. Evidence on finance...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Vol I: 1. Jeremy Greenwood and Boyan Jovanovic (1990), 'Financial Development, Growth, and the Distribution of Income', Journal of Political Economy, 98 (5), October, 1076-107 -- 2. Valerie R. Bencivenga and Bruce D. Smith (1991), 'Financial...

Contents: Preface -- 1. The idea of economic growth -- 2. Why manage without growth? -- 3. Systems, information and prices -- 4. Pricing nature -- 5. Limits to growth - sources -- 6. Limits to growth - sinks and services -- 7. Limits to growth - synthesis -- 8. Scale, composition and technology...

Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. James E. Meade (1958), 'Is the National Debt a Burden?', Oxford Economic Papers, 10 (2), June, 163-83 -- 2. Franco Modigliani (1961), 'Long-Run Implications of Alternative Fiscal Policies and the Burden of the National Debt', Economic Journal, 71...

Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I Impacts on regional economic growth -- 2. Regional characteristics and the impacts of foreign direct investment on China's regional economic growth -- 3. The interregional impacts of foreign direct investment on China's inland economic growth -- Part II...

Contents: Foreword / Russell S. Sobel -- 1. Introduction / Gregory M. Randolph -- 2. Creating the environment for entrepreneurship through economic freedom / Joshua C. Hall, Robert A. Lawson, and Saurav Roychoudhury -- 3. The role of public policy in entrepreneurship and migration / Pavel A....

Contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Accumulating human capital for sustainable development -- 2. Education bubble and widening inequality -- 3. Making education diversification reform happen -- 4. Turning around failing vocational high schools -- 5. Deteriorating skills and weak life-long...

Contents: 1. Dimensionality of religion -- 2. Religious origins of political regimes -- 3. Religious identity, local governance & public goods -- 4. The political economy of Russian Orthodoxy -- 5. Back to the Prussian origins: kulturkampf & comparative modernization -- References -- Conclusions...

Contents: Preface -- Part I: Public debt and individual rationality -- 1. De Viti de Marco vs. Ricardo on public debt: self-extinction or default? / Giuseppe Eusepi and Richard E. Wagner -- 2. Governing the market for sovereign bailouts / Karsten Mause -- 3. Political obligations: is debt...