Human Evolution Economic Progress And Evolutionary Failure

Author : Bhanoji Rao
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351777766

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Human Evolution, Economic Progress and Evolutionary Failure by Bhanoji Rao Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- List of appendices -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1 Introduction and context -- PART I Human evolution -- 2 Synoptic view of human evolution via natural selection -- 3 Human evolution: beyond the physical -- PART II Economic progress -- 4 Population growth and economic progress: pre-industrial through the 1940s -- 5 Progress since 1950 and the emerging challenges -- PART III Understanding and tackling evolutionary failure -- 6 The idea of evolutionary failure -- 7 Addressing evolutionary failure: the way forward -- Epilogue: hope for humanity -- References and further reading -- Index.

Author : Bhanoji Rao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 0367696673

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Human Evolution, Economic Progress and Evolutionary Failure by Bhanoji Rao Pdf

Author : Joseph E. Pluta
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519315813

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From Human Evolution to Evolutionary Economics by Joseph E. Pluta Pdf

Written in lively prose and with astute insight, this book carefully documents how traditional beliefs have resisted change and slowed economic progress throughout human history. Using the interdisciplinary focus of evolutionary economists, its author surveys ancient, medieval, and modern times. He argues persuasively that policy prescriptions would be more effective if economists better understood how historically significant events and ideas shed light on the problems of today.

Author : Alberto Bisin,Giovanni Federico
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780128162682

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The Handbook of Historical Economics by Alberto Bisin,Giovanni Federico Pdf

The Handbook of Historical Economics guides students and researchers through a quantitative economic history that uses fully up-to-date econometric methods. The book's coverage of statistics applied to the social sciences makes it invaluable to a broad readership. As new sources and applications of data in every economic field are enabling economists to ask and answer new fundamental questions, this book presents an up-to-date reference on the topics at hand. Provides an historical outline of the two cliometric revolutions, highlighting the similarities and the differences between the two Surveys the issues and principal results of the "second cliometric revolution" Explores innovations in formulating hypotheses and statistical testing, relating them to wider trends in data-driven, empirical economics

Author : Seung-hun Chun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351215725

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The Economic Development of South Korea by Seung-hun Chun Pdf

How did a country with a dearth of natural resources, a sprawling population congested in a limited arable land transform itself to a modern industrial state within a generation? How could these have been achieved given the lingering geopolitical threats to its very survival as a state, as evidenced by the Korean War and the internecine aggressive posturing of its neighbor from the north? This book looks at strategies, institutional arrangement, role of entrepreneurs and workers in this odyssey, and on how those factors have worked together through effective leadership to transform South Korea’s economic fortunes.

Author : Richard R. Nelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1985-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674041437

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An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change by Richard R. Nelson Pdf

This book contains the most sustained and serious attack on mainstream, neoclassical economics in more than forty years. Nelson and Winter focus their critique on the basic question of how firms and industries change overtime. They marshal significant objections to the fundamental neoclassical assumptions of profit maximization and market equilibrium, which they find ineffective in the analysis of technological innovation and the dynamics of competition among firms. To replace these assumptions, they borrow from biology the concept of natural selection to construct a precise and detailed evolutionary theory of business behavior. They grant that films are motivated by profit and engage in search for ways of improving profits, but they do not consider them to be profit maximizing. Likewise, they emphasize the tendency for the more profitable firms to drive the less profitable ones out of business, but they do not focus their analysis on hypothetical states of industry equilibrium. The results of their new paradigm and analytical framework are impressive. Not only have they been able to develop more coherent and powerful models of competitive firm dynamics under conditions of growth and technological change, but their approach is compatible with findings in psychology and other social sciences. Finally, their work has important implications for welfare economics and for government policy toward industry.

Author : Kiyoshi Kobayashi,Khairuddin Abdul Rashid,Masahiko Furuichi,William P. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315534046

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Economic Integration and Regional Development by Kiyoshi Kobayashi,Khairuddin Abdul Rashid,Masahiko Furuichi,William P. Anderson Pdf

With a combined population larger than that of the EU or NAFTA, economic integration of the ASEAN states will have a massive impact on both the Asian and global economies. This book examines the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) and its opportunities and challenges. It looks at the impacts of economic integration, trade structure and economic interlinkage among these countries through case studies. The book also utilizes theories to further examine areas such as trade, cross-border infrastructure, border management, and the regional development in terms of trade liberalization and foreign labor. This book also provides insight and analysis to developing policies for "ASEAN Connectivity". Given the challenges faced and huge potential impacts of the AEC’s cross-border project, this book will be of interest to policy makers, business leaders and researchers in the ASEAN region and throughout the world.

Author : Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781108470971

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Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture by Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh Pdf

A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.

Author : Lotta Moberg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315298948

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The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones by Lotta Moberg Pdf

Did China solve the incentive problem? -- Did the Chinese SEZs lead to general reform? -- Chinese SEZs at their best -- Not a tool to avoid reforms -- Notes -- References -- 7. Dividing the Dominican Republic -- Did the Dominican Republic solve the knowledge problem? -- Did the Dominican Republic solve the incentive problem? -- Did the SEZs lead to general reform? -- How the SEZs helped the government avoid liberalization -- Why the Dominican SEZs persist -- Notes -- References -- PART III: The political economy of future SEZs -- 8. Implications for SEZ policy makers -- When to deal with the knowledge and incentive problems -- Meeting with the SEZ planners -- Notes -- References -- 9. The changing world of SEZs -- The role of the World Trade Organization -- Future threats -- The zones of the future -- Notes -- References -- Conclusion -- Index.

Author : Werner Baer,Jerry Dávila,André de Melo Modenesi,Maria da Graça Derengowski Fonseca,Jaques Kerstenetzky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351705882

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Brazil’s Economy by Werner Baer,Jerry Dávila,André de Melo Modenesi,Maria da Graça Derengowski Fonseca,Jaques Kerstenetzky Pdf

The past century has witnessed profound transitions in Brazil’s economy: from a surge of industrialization connected to export economy, to state projects of importsubstitution industrialization, followed by a process of neoliberal global market integration. How have Brazilian entrepreneurs and businesses navigated these contexts? This comprehensive text explores the institutional and sectoral structure of the Brazilian economy through a collection of new case studies, examining how key institutions work within Brazil’s specific economic, political and cultural context. Offering a long-term evolutionary perspective, the book explores Brazil’s economic past in order to offer insights on its present and future trajectory. The contributions gathered here offer fresh insights into representative sectors of Brazil’s economy, from aerospace to software, television, music and banking, paying particular attention to sectors that are likely to drive future growth. Chapters include questions about the roles of foreign and state capital, changes in market regulation, the emergence of new technologies, the opening of markets, institutional and organizational frameworks, and changing management paradigms. When examined together, the contributions shed light not only on Brazilian business history, but also on the country as a whole. Brazil’s Economy: An Institutional and Sectoral Approach offers fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in: Latin American Economics; the business history of the region; and in doing business in present-day Latin America.

Author : Martha Prevezer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317819233

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Varieties of Capitalism in History, Transition and Emergence by Martha Prevezer Pdf

Economics tends to teach that developed countries have good institutions while developing countries do not, and that this is the factor that constrains the latter's growth. However, the picture is far messier than this explanation suggests. Building on the varieties of capitalism framework, this book brings together the tools of institutional economics with historical analyses of institutional evolution of different kinds of property rights and legal systems, protected by different kinds of state, giving rise to distinct corporate governance structures. It constructs institutional development histories across leading liberal capitalisms in Britain and the United States, compared with continental capitalisms in France and Germany, and contemporary transitional capitalisms in China and Tanzania. This volume is innovative in combining both historical and economic insights, and in combining developed country with developing country institutional emergence, dispelling the prevailing sense of complacency about the inevitability of the path of institutional development for the developed areas of the world and the paths that developing countries are likely to follow. This volume will be of great importance to those who study international economics, development economics and international business.

Author : Binoy Goswami,Madhurjya Prasad Bezbaruah,Raju Mandal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351976329

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Indian Agriculture after the Green Revolution by Binoy Goswami,Madhurjya Prasad Bezbaruah,Raju Mandal Pdf

From a country plagued with chronic food shortage, the Green Revolution turned India into a food-grain self-sufficient nation within the decade of 1968-1978. By contrast, the decade of 1995-2005 witnessed a spate in suicides among farmers in many parts of the country. These tragic incidents were symptomatic of the severe stress and strain that the agriculture sector had meanwhile accumulated. The book recounts how the high achievements of the Green Revolution had overgrown to a state of this ‘agrarian crisis’. In the process, it also brings to fore the underlying resilience and innovativeness in the sector which enabled it not just to survive through the crisis but to evolve and revive out of it. The need of the hour is to create an environment that will enable the sector to acquire the robustness to contend with the challenges of lifting levels of farm income and coping with Climate Change. To this end, a multi-pronged intervention strategy has been suggested. Reviving public investment in irrigation, tuning agrarian institutions to the changed context, strengthening of market institution for better farm-market linkage and financial access of farmers, and preparing the ground for ushering in technological innovations should form the major components of this policy paradigm.

Author : Zhang-Yue Zhou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317614111

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Achieving Food Security in China by Zhang-Yue Zhou Pdf

China’s food security has never failed to attract the public’s attention. Feeding China’s large population has always been a huge challenge. The latest large-scale famine took place in 1958–62 during which approximately 37 million people died of starvation. However, since the early 1980s, China’s food availability has improved drastically. The important question is then: has China achieved its food security? Although China’s food availability has significantly improved, it has not achieved a high level of food security due to the lack of progress in several other important dimensions of food security. The book examines China’s food security practices in the past six decades, explores the root causes that led to food shortages or abundances, and elaborates on the challenges that China has to deal with in order to improve its future food security. China’s quest for food security serves as a valuable lesson for many other countries to learn through China’s experiences and to better manage their food security in the future. The book also draws attention to the fact that China’s food security status has a huge impact on the global community and hence global collaboration is a mutually beneficial approach.

Author : Surinder S. Jodhka,Boike Rehbein,Jessé Souza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134837991

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Inequality in Capitalist Societies by Surinder S. Jodhka,Boike Rehbein,Jessé Souza Pdf

Inequality is one of the most discussed topics of our times. Yet, we still do not know how to tackle the issue effectively. The book argues that this is due to the lack of understanding the structures responsible for the persistence of social inequality. It enquires into the mechanisms that produce and reproduce invisible dividing lines in society. Based on original case studies of Brazil, Germany, India and Laos comprising thousands of interviews, the authors argue that invisible classes emerge in capitalist societies, both reproducing and transforming precapitalist hierarchies. At the same time, locally particular forms of inequality persist. Social inequality in the contemporary world has to be understood as a specific combination of precapitalist inequalities, capitalist transformation and a particular class structure, which seems to emerge in all capitalist societies. The book links the configurations to an interpretation of global domination as well as to symbolic classification.

Author : Go Tamakoshi,Shigeyuki Hamori
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351997041

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Credit Default Swap Markets in the Global Economy by Go Tamakoshi,Shigeyuki Hamori Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive overview for various segments of the global credit default swap (CDS) markets, touching upon how they were affected by the recent financial turmoil. The book uses empirical analysis on credit default swap markets, applying advanced econometric methodologies to the time series data. It covers not only well-studied sovereign credit default swap markets but also sector credit default swap indices (i.e., CDS index for the banking sector) and corporate credit default swap indices (i.e., Markit iTraxx Japan CDS index), which have not been fully examined by the previous literature. The book also investigates causality and co-movement among several credit default swap markets, or between CDS and other financial markets.