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En esta obra, Alejandro Díaz-Bautista compila una serie de artículos de investigación económica en donde se recogen diversos puntos de vista de los cambios económicos ocurridos durante los últimos tres sexenios en México, que se registraron en la esfera política económica y en...

Profits are the incentive for production and therefore employment in almost all of the world's economies; they also may represent exploitation of workers and consumers. Jerome Levy, using a complex process, derived the profits identity during the years 1908–1914. Michal Kalecki, taking...

FDI has become a importance source of external finance for several transitional economies, in particular those in Central Europe.The paper analyses determinants of FDI in Central Europe by providing econometric analysis. We examine the flows of FDI into the Czech and Slovak Federal Republics...

La fiducia del piccolo risparmiatore nell’integrità del sistema economico in cui opera è un elemento cruciale per la sopravvivenza del modello capitalistico di sviluppo economico. Negli anni novanta si sono osservate marcate tendenze all’investimento in capitale di rischio per motivi tanto...

It is widely believed that the current economic slowdown will be mild and temporary in nature, the result of a momentary wobble in the stock market. This paper argues that the slowdown stands to be more deep- seated, owing to contradictions in the existing process of aggregate demand generation....

Although President Clinton's health care plan was defeated in Congress, the problems precipitating the plan's introduction still exist or have worsened: medical costs continue to grow faster than the overall economy, more individuals are not covered by insurance, and fiscal austerity threatens...

This paper has a doubting, though friendly, look at the hypotheses of "second generation decline" and "segmented assimilation" that have framed the emerging research agenda on the new second generation. We begin with a review of the basic approach, outlining the logic of argument, and specifying...

In 1898 the U.S. Bureau of Immigration initiated a classification of immigrants into some 40 categories of "race or people;" nearly all the categories covered Europeans. In 1909 an effort was made to extend this system of classification to the U.S. Census, and the relevant measure passed in the...

Both the macroeconomic and the microeconomic evidence from U. S. economy’s experience over the past two centuries leads to a view of technological change (broadly conceived) as having not been “neutral” in its effects upon growth. The specific meaning of “non-neutrality” in this...