The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...

Der Beitrag zeigt die Perspektiven eines Landes auf, das sich in den letzten 20 Jahren zum führenden Ölexporteur der Welt entwickelte, Einfluß in der Welt und im Mittleren Osten gewann und zugleich eine der fundamentalsten sozio-ökonomischen Transformationen der modernen Zeit erlebte. Dieser...

Keynesian economics dominated economic thought and macroeconomic policy-making in the 1950s and 1960s. However, the diffusion of Keynesian economics has been uneven. In this paper, we compare the spread of Keynesian economics in two continental European countries: Belgium and Italy. We focus on...