Growth and International Trade: Introduction and Stylized Facts -- PART I. GROWTH -- Modeling the Growth of the World Economy: The Basic Overlapping Generations Model -- Steady State, Factor Income, and Technological Progress -- Economic Growth and Public Debt in the World Economy -- “New“...

pt. 1. Measuring infrastructure gaps : quantity and quality perspectives -- pt. 2. Fundamentals in flux : functions, finance, and equalization for decentralized public investment -- pt. 3. Sectoral perspectives -- pt. 4. Investing into the invisible : management and coordination of decentralized...

pt. 1. Globalization, economic integration, and cultural differences -- pt. 2. Do cultural differences hinder economic globalization? -- pt. 3. Interpreting a cultural distance-economic globalization nexus.

1. Introduction -- 2. Mercantilism and neo-mercantilism -- 3. Classical trade theory : Smith and Ricardo -- 4. Neoclassical trade theory -- 5. The new orthodoxy : trade theory recast -- 6. Classical and Keynesian international economics -- 7. Austrian international economics -- 8....

1. Support-bargaining and the evolution of human societies -- 2. Money and money-bargaining -- 3. Macroeconomics and money-bargaining -- 4. Evolutionary economics -- 5. The evolution of money-bargaining -- 6. The state and money-bargaining -- 7. Support-bargaining, credit and confidence -- 8....

It has become commonplace to think that globalization has produced a race to the bottom in terms of labor standards and quality of life: the cheaper the labor and the lower the benefits afforded workers, the more competitively a country can participate on the global stage. But in this book the...

As the economic giants of Asia and elsewhere have awakened, Western leaders have increasingly struggled to maintain economic stability. The international financial crisis that began in 2007 is but one result of the emerging nations’ increased gravitational pull. In this vividly written and...