In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar’s long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. Idescribe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, withdistinguished economists’ stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar’s goal is to show howeconomists work, but also...

We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for arecipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth vianon-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoreticmodel to develop testable...

The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding ofthe fundamental sources of economic growth and development. In this chapter we surveyimportant contributions in the field by focussing on the basic structure of endogenous growthmodels with horizontal as well...

Im Aufsatz werden Probleme der ökonomischen und sozialen Entwicklung der CSSR behandelt. Trotz einer relativ stabilen Wirtschaftslage im Vergleich mit Nachbarländern machen sich einige destabilisierende Tendenzen bemerkbar. So verliert z.B. der nationale Markt Kontakt zu den Weltmärkten,...