This volume honors Raúl Prebisch's contributions to economic thought and uses his 1970 report Change and Development: Latin America's Great Task as a point of departure for analyzing trends in the region in the 1970s and 1980s. This volume comprises a collection of the papers presented at the...

This book identifies the long-run trends in global agricultural production, prices, and trade and projects the likely trends of the future.

Copenhagen Consensus participant Nancy Stokey ranks potential solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Although theologians and economists communicate their ideas to different professional audiences in different ways, we agree on many basic points. We agree, for instance, that all too often, a large gap appears between "what is" and "what should be." We agree, more specifically, that unregulated...

In this paper I study infant mortality, health care spending, medical resource availability, and lifestyle issues in the United States relative to the other member countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). I find that the United States performs poorly...