The existence of the macroeconomic cycle in the global economy is discussed. The macroeconomic cycle was evolutionary formed under the dominant influence of the annual cycle of grain production. Thus, in the current global economy, the money supply to GDP ratio is about the same as it was in the...

The paper continues a series of publications on the natural science foundations of the global economy. Physical macroeconomics treats the global economy as a living system, formed during biological and socio-economic evolution.In this part of physical macroeconomics, the energy sources of the...

This article is the leading one in a series of articles describing the results of 15 years of independent research by the author. This series presents the updated and expanded results of these studies, which were previously presented in the book “Natural Science Foundations of Macroeconomics:...

This article discusses some implications of the physical concepts of information and economic value. These concepts under the general title "Physical Macroeconomics" were proposed by the author in interdisciplinary journals and books, as well as in a series of SSRN articles.The fundamental...

The literature on aid has come a long way in recent years, and as a result we now know much more about aid effectiveness than possibly ever before. But significant gaps in knowledge remain. One such gap is the effectiveness of aid in the so-called ‘fragile states’, countries with critically...

Policy prescriptions for managing natural resource windfalls are based on the permanent income hypothesis: none of the windfall is invested at home and saving in an intergenerational SWF is dictated by smoothing consumption across different generations. Furthermore, with Dutch disease effects...

I propose a two-sector endogenous growth model with heterogeneous sectoral productivity and sector-specific, nonlinear hiring costs to analyse the link between sectoral resource allocation, low productivity growth and stagnant real wages. My results suggest that an upward shift in the labor...

I propose a two-sector endogenous growth model with heterogeneous sectoral productivity and nonlinear hiring costs to analyse the link between sectoral resource allocation, low productivity growth and stagnant real wages. My results suggest that an upward shift in employment, triggered for...