In this paper we study the dynamics of economic growth for 140 countries during the period 1951-2003. The variables representing economic performance are levels and growth rates of per capita GDP. Using the concept of economic regime, we introduce a notion of distance between the dynamical paths...

In this paper we analyze the rationality that sustains the public investments on white elephants applied to the construction of tourist facilities in Mexico. The main result of this paper is that there exist two kinds of rationalities in the construction of white elephants. One is a similar...

Sustainable systems are those that can maintain a desirable regime in the presence of disturbance. Dynamic regime theory has been applied to systems in a growing number of disciplines to understand and predict system behavior, as well as manage system sustainability. A multidisciplinary analysis...