This paper shows that the observed output of any market, placed within the confine of a quadratic map, can characterize the state of that market. Such an approach explains the process of market share’s growth and its pitfalls, the consequences of broken symmetry of scaling, as well as the...

In this paper, we provide a new methodology in constant-market-shares (CMS) analysis and the measurement of export competitiveness. The main issue in CMS analysis is the difficulty in reconciling the continuously changing nature of country and world exports with the available discrete time data...

This paper offers a theoretical framework to understand the coevolution of social interactions and long-term economic growth. It begins by considering that most traditional societies did not have educational markets. Thus, access to the required knowledge for transiting to a modern economy had...