- Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity
- Tu Wei-Ming, Editor
- Seventeen scholars from varying fields here consider the implications of Confucian concerns--self-cultivation, regulation of the family, social civility, moral education, well-being of the people, governance of the state, and universal peace--in industrial East Asia.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover
- Development Encounters
- Pauline E. Peters, Editor
- Margarita Benavides
- Anne Ferguson
- Theodore Macdonald
- Isaac Mazonde
- Ajay Mehta
- Paul Nkwi
- Jesse Ribot
- James Trostle
- The field of development is subject to shifts in paradigms, and it is important to examine systematically how these are realized in actual practice. Two currently favored approaches are participation and indigenous knowledge. In these collected papers, development researchers and practitioners share their ideas and experience on the different forms taken by participation and knowledge, not limited to "indigenous" knowledge, in the practice of development.
- Paperback 2001 / Hardcover 2001
- Economic Development in Central America, Volume 1, Growth and Internationalization
- Felipe Larraín B, Editor
- Benjamin Alvarez
- Gerardo Esquivel
- Cristina Garcia Lopez
- Mauricio Jenkins
- Luis F. Lopez-Calva
- Andres Rodriguez-Clare
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Jose Tavares
- This two-volume set is a comprehensive assessment of Central America's position in the world economy, and it serves as a handbook for the important economic reforms Central America must undertake to become a viable competitor in the international economy.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2001
- The Economics of Adjustment and Growth
- Pierre-Richard Agénor
- This book provides a systematic and coherent framework for understanding the interactions between the micro and macro dimensions of economic adjustment policies; that is, it explores short-run macroeconomic management and structural adjustment policies aimed at promoting economic growth. It emphasizes the importance of structural microeconomic characteristics in the transmission of policy shocks and the response of the economy to adjustment policies. It has particular relevance to the economics of developing countries.
- Hardcover 2004
- Effective Management of Social Enterprises
- Editorial coordination by Social Enterprise Knowledge Network SEKN
- Edited by James E. Austin
- Edited by Roberto Gutierrez
- Edited by Enrique Ogliastri
- Edited by Ezequiel Reficco
- Based on the results of a two-year research process on how social and business organizations in Ibero-America achieve superior social performance, Seeking Success in Social Enterprise presents the most comprehensive and in-depth analysis of such practices ever undertaken in this region. This practitioner-oriented book also enriches the literature on organizational performance, social enterprise, and corporate social responsibility. It aims to enable social and business leaders to gain a greater understanding of how to achieve high performance in terms of social value creation.
- Paperback 2006
- Enterprise
- Stuart Bruchey
- Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990
- Globalization and the Rural Environment
- Otto T. Solbrig, Editor
- Robert Paarlberg, Editor
- Francesco Di Castri, Editor
- Organized by Harvard University's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies with the collaboration of the Scientific Committee for Problems of the Environment, this interdisciplinary volume examines the impact of a variety of new technological, social, and economic trends on the rural environment.
- Paperback 2001
- Growth and Structural Transformation
- Kwang Suk Kim
- Michael Roemer
- Hardcover 1979
- Hollywood's Road to Riches
- David Waterman
- Combining historical and economic analysis, this book shows how, beginning in the 1950s, a largely predictable business has been transformed into a volatile and complex multimedia enterprise now commanding over 80 percent of the world's film business. At the same time, the book asks how the economic forces leading to this success--the forces of audience demand, technology, and high risk--have combined to change the kinds of movies Hollywood produces.
- Hardcover 2005
- Innovation--The Missing Dimension
- Richard K. Lester
- Michael J. Piore
- Amid mounting concern over the loss of jobs to low-wage economies, one fact is clear: America's prosperity hinges on the ability of its businesses to continually introduce new products and services. But what makes for a creative economy? For an answer, Lester and Piore examine innovation strategies in some of the economy's most dynamic sectors, including cell phones, medical devices, and blue jeans.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006
- Integrating the Americas
- Edited by Antoni Estevadeordal
- Edited by Dani Rodrik
- Edited by Alan M. Taylor
- Edited by Andrés Velasco
- This work, based on a conference sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, examines how this free trade process is surging ahead, while at the same time taking on a broader set of issues including institutional reform, transparency, the environment, labor, and social cohesion.
- Paperback 2004
- The Mystery of Economic Growth
- Elhanan Helpman
- Far more than an intellectual puzzle for pundits, economists, and policymakers, economic growth--its makings and workings--is a subject that affects the well-being of billions of people around the globe. Helpman discusses the vast research that has revolutionized understanding of this subject in recent years, and summarizes and explains its critical messages in clear, concise, and accessible terms.
- Hardcover 2004
- Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645-900
- William Wayne Farris
- W. Wayne Farris has developed the first systematic analysis of early Japanese population, the role of disease in economic development, and the impact of agricultural technology and practices. In doing so, he reinterprets the nature of ritsuryō institutions.
- Hardcover 1985 / Paperback
- Privatization for the Public Good?
- Edited by Alberto Chong
- Using unique household data sets for six Latin American countries, the essays collected in this volume put together a compelling picture of the effects of privatization.
- Paperback 2008
- Promoting and Sustaining Economic Reform in Zambia
- Edited by Catharine B. Hill
- Edited by Malcolm F. McPherson
- This collection of essays examines Zambia's efforts to promote economic reform during the 1990s. Following the restoration of democratic rule, the Government of Zambia adopted an ambitious program designed to stabilize the economy and lay the foundation for sustained growth and development. These essays describe the adjustment program, highlighting the attempts to reform the budget, the tax system, the financial system, agriculture and mining, and to create the human capacity to sustain the reforms.
- Paperback 2004
- R&D, Education, and Productivity
- Zvi Griliches
- Zvi Griliches was a modern master of empirical economics. In this short book, he recounts what he and others have learned about the sources of economic growth. This book conveys the way he tackled research problems. For Griliches, economic theorizing without measurement is merely the fashioning of parables, but measurement without theory is blind. Judgment enables one to strike the right balance.
- Hardcover 2001
- Reconstructing Europe after the Great War
- Dan P. Silverman
- Hardcover 1982
- Reconstructing Macroeconomics
- Lance Taylor
- This book presents both a critique of mainstream macroeconomics from a structuralist perspective and an exposition of modern structuralist approaches. The fundamental assumption of structuralism is that it is impossible to understand a macroeconomy without understanding its major institutions and distributive relationships across productive sectors and social groups.
- Hardcover 2004
- Upgrading to Compete
- Edited by Carlo Pietrobelli
- Edited by Roberta Rabellotti
- Can local markets and clusters represent a powerful alternative to global markets? Do transnational corporations and global buyers enhance or undermine local firms' upgrading and learning? Using original empirical evidence from several clusters in Latin America, Upgrading to Compete shows that both local and global dimensions matter at once.
- Paperback 2007
- Why Wages Don't Fall during a Recession
- Truman F. Bewley
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002