Introduction -- Part I Land Use -- Chapter 1. The Case for Dynamic Cities -- Chapter 2. What’s Wrong with American Land Use: Market Failures, Bad Policies, or Politics? -- Part II. Education -- Chapter 3. Funding Students Instead of Systems: The Case for School Choice,” -- Chapter 4. The...

Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient political and economic institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do such conditions sometimes generate conservative ideological backlashes and, at other times, progressive social and political movements? We propose an...

Industrial policy and innovation policies need to be strongly revitalized and focused on LDC development. Given the concentration of several LDCs in forestry, fisheries, mining, agricultural commodities, and oil, the task of these revitalized industrial policies is to support locally relevant...

This article investigates the dynamic relationship between a single pursue of an invention and the general US supply of similar activities in early computing during the 1930-1946 period. The objective is to illustrate how an early scientific state of knowledge affects the efficiency with which...

We analyze a series of macroeconometric models developed in the years of high theory by Marschak, Frisch and Leontief. These models share an explanation of growth, cycles and fluctuations (“economic change”), based on the analysis of the circulation of capital goods among producers. They...

Technological changes are understood as part of a learning process. Even if a share of knowledge is built outside organizations, the adoption and diffusion of new technologies go through the ability of agents to absorb and retain information. Managerial ability to decode external information and...

Technological changes, when taken exogenously, would be represented by upward shifts in the production curve. The evolutionary approach of economic growth is an alternative to study technological change as endogenous and dynamic process, in which the accumulation of capital takes strategic role...

Technological changes, when taken exogenously, would be represented by upward shifts in the production curve. The evolutionary approach of economic growth is an alternative to study technological change as endogenous and dynamic process, in which the accumulation of capital takes strategic role...

Technological changes are understood as part of a learning process. Even if a share of knowledge is built outside organizations, the adoption and diffusion of new technologies go through the ability of agents to absorb and retain information. Managerial ability to decode external information and...