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Abstract/Sommario: The world's inequalites - Per capita output as an index of development - economic backwardness as a qasi-stable equilibrium sustem - Characteristics of backward economies - Characteristics of backwardness some dynamic aspects - The theory of underemployment in densely populated backward areas - Specialization, income level, and occupational structure - The critical minimum effort thesis - Growth incentives agents and activities and the minimum effort thesis - Population growth theory a ...; [Leggi tutto...] The world's inequalites - Per capita output as an index of development - economic backwardness as a qasi-stable equilibrium sustem - Characteristics of backward economies - Characteristics of backwardness some dynamic aspects - The theory of underemployment in densely populated backward areas - Specialization, income level, and occupational structure - The critical minimum effort thesis - Growth incentives agents and activities and the minimum effort thesis - Population growth theory and economic development - Some notes on capital output ratios - A summary view - Basic relationships a diagrammatic summary - population growth investment rates and related magnitudes some illustrative projections and calculations - Economic development throry and investment policies.

Abstract/Sommario: Introduction - Analysis and findings - Materials consulted and methods used.

Abstract/Sommario: The report and its background - Index-numbers and economic theory - Index-numbers in a social accounting framework - Commodities quantity units and quality differences - Intermediate services and routing problems - Seasonal variations - The treatment of non-commodity flows - General problems of messurement - Familiar types of index-nombers and the system presented here.

Abstract/Sommario: This book revisits a distinction introduced in 1921 by economists Frank Knight and John Maynard Keynes: that between statistically predictable future events ('risks') and statistically unpredictable, uncertain events ('uncertainties'). Governments have generally ignored the latter, perceiving phenomena such as pandemics, natural disasters and climate change as uncontrollable Acts of God. As a result, there has been little if any preparation for future catastrophes. Our modern society i ...; [Leggi tutto...] This book revisits a distinction introduced in 1921 by economists Frank Knight and John Maynard Keynes: that between statistically predictable future events ('risks') and statistically unpredictable, uncertain events ('uncertainties'). Governments have generally ignored the latter, perceiving phenomena such as pandemics, natural disasters and climate change as uncontrollable Acts of God. As a result, there has been little if any preparation for future catastrophes. Our modern society is more interconnected and more globalized than ever. Dealing with uncertain future events requires a stronger and more globally coordinated government response. This book suggests a larger, more global government role in dealing with these disasters and keeping economic inequalities low. Major institutional changes, such as regulating the private sector for the common good and dealing with special harms, risks and crises, especially those concerning climate change and pandemics, are necessary in order to achieve any semblance of future progress for humankind.

Abstract/Sommario: National laws - International cartels and combines - A comparative analysis.

Abstract/Sommario: The founding fathers - The calculus of error and the calculus of exploration - The calculus of aggregates - The calculus of judgments.

Abstract/Sommario: Investment in Mexico is another in the series of handbooks on foreign countries issued by the U. S. Department of Commerce to provide in convenient form basic information for investors as well as foreign traders.

Abstract/Sommario: This handbook, designed primarily to serve the needs of potential investors, is one in a series of country studies issued by the U. S. Department of Commerce. Since it brings togetner m a single publication basic economic and commercial Information on Cuba, exporters and importers also will find it a helpful document.

Abstract/Sommario: This is another in a series of country handbooks designed to bring together in convenient form the basic information -often readily available to the United States Government but perhaps obtainable by private individuals and companies only at considerable expense- necessary to enable the prospettive investor to approach his specific problems expeditiously and realistically.

Abstract/Sommario: Understanding economics and economists - Relative prices - the competitive firm - Agricultural policy - The monopolistic firm - Government and business monopoly - The rewards to the productive factors - Labor unions The classical model of the economic system - Price level changes - Money and the banks - the federal reserve system and monetay policy - The national income and employment - Government expenditures - Taxation, fiscal policy, and the national debt - International economics - ...; [Leggi tutto...] Understanding economics and economists - Relative prices - the competitive firm - Agricultural policy - The monopolistic firm - Government and business monopoly - The rewards to the productive factors - Labor unions The classical model of the economic system - Price level changes - Money and the banks - the federal reserve system and monetay policy - The national income and employment - Government expenditures - Taxation, fiscal policy, and the national debt - International economics - Foreign economic policy - Economic growth and development - Marxism and the soviet economy.