"Social forces are important determinants of how people behave, how economies work at the macroeconomic level, and the effectiveness of economic policies. However, this dimension is generally overlooked in mainstream economics. How Social Forces Impact the Economy demonstrates that a broader...

This paper explores some of the links between macroeconomic policy and industrial strategy. The perspective of the present paper is to emphasize the role of the output and investment activities of enterprises rather than the general focus on the labor market in the determination of economic...

The thesis is organized in a set of studies divided in three chapters. Chapter 2 and 3 focus on the Argentine and Brazilian industrial development empirically and they are based on the Analysis Program of Industrial Dynamics database (PADI) (Katz and Stumpo, 2001). PADI covers 28 manufacturing...