This book contributes to the debate on the decoupling of emerging economies from the advanced economies with a new, empirical investigation approach. Taking counterfactual experiments performed using a time-varying panel VAR model, the author argues that over the last thirty years, emerging...

1 Introduction -- 2 Technology, the Economy, and Society - Casting the Bridges -- 3 Technology Diffusion -- 4 Information and Communication Technologies Diffusion Patterns in Developing Countries - Empirical Evidence -- 5 What Matters for ICT Diffusion? -- 6 Conclusion, Recommendations and...

The book presents a collection of essays addressing a perceived need for persistent and logical thinking, critical reasoning, rigor and relevance on the part of researchers pursuing their doctorates. Accordingly, eminent experts have come together to consider these significant aspects of the...

This book examines the influences of various cultural factors on economic analyses that could be misrepresented by existing economic theories. Most significantly, the book measures the cultural diversity and bilateral similarity indexes of the existing 200 or more countries and regions, and...

Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the main stream of economic thought that has existed from the Eighteenth-century to the present day. This book tells the story of anti-economics in relations to Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Walras, Keynes and Hicks as well as current economic thinkers....

Transferring Negative Externalities: Feedback Effects of Self-Protection Choices in a Two Hemispheres Model -- Structural Change, Economic Growth and Environmental Dynamics with Heterogeneous Agents -- Bifurcations and Chaotic Attractors in an Overlapping Generations Model with Negative...