Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction-Globalization: One Path or Many? -- Part One: How Asia Got Rich -- 1. Corning Home -- 2. Flying Geese -- 3. Second Invasion -- 4. Tsunami -- 5. Crisis? What Crisis? -- 6. Miracle...

This book analyses the main historical turning points in the Spanish economy and the related challenges it faced. It focuses on six turning points that changed the direction of the Spanish economy, and identifies the economic, social or political origin of these watersheds. It also compares the...

This book explores a big puzzle in development economics - why Argentina, despite rich natural resources and ample human capital, has endured such poor growth performance. The authors use rigorous economic analysis and an institutional and historical approach to show what went wrong, in a timely...

Tackles one of the big puzzles in the field of development economics, examining why Argentina, despite rich natural resources and ample human capital, has endured such poor growth performance. This title points to what went wrong, and offers a contribution to sustainable development dialogue

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The world economy is currently in the throes of a global economic crisis reminiscent of the great depressions of the 1930s and the 1870s. As back then, the crisis has exposed the major structural imbalances in financial and credit markets in addition to global trade forcing many governments,...