- Diasporas and Development
- Edited by Barbara J. Merz
- Edited by Lincoln C. Chen
- Edited by Peter F. Geithner
- Contributions by David de Ferranti
- Contributions by Devesh Kapur
- Contributions by Adil Najam
- Contributions by Anthony Ody
- Contributions by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome
- Contributions by Manuel Orozco
- Contributions by Mark Sidel
- Just as trade, finance, information, and technologies are moving rapidly across borders, so too are labor markets and transnational migrant communities, with migrants sending large quantities of money and knowledge back to their native countries as philanthropy, remittances, and commercial investments. Merz examines the positive--and sometimes negative--impacts of this transactional engagement in studies of Africa, Asia, Central America, and the Caribbean.
- Paperback 2007
- Growth and Distribution
- Duncan K. Foley
- Thomas R. Michl
- Growth and Distribution is the first text designed to support a comprehensive advanced undergraduate or graduate course on the theory, measurement, and history of economic growth. The book, which presents Classical and Keynesian in parallel with Neoclassical approaches to growth theory, introduces students to advanced tools of intertemporal economic analysis through carefully developed treatments of land- and resource-limited growth, and covers money and growth, the impact of government debt and social security systems on growth, and theories of endogenous growth and endogenous technical change. The models emphasize rigorous reasoning from basic economic principles and insights without excessive formal complication, and respond to students' interest in the history and policy dilemmas of real-world economies.
- Hardcover 1999
- Making Room
- Brendan O'Flaherty
- The first full-scale economic analysis of homelessness, Making Room provides answers quite unlike those offered so far. Focused on six cities in America and Europe, Brendan O'Flaherty discusses the new homelessness as a response to changes in the housing market which is linked to a widening gap in the incomes of the rich and the poor.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998
- The New Geography of Global Income Inequality
- Glenn Firebaugh
- Critics of globalization and others maintain that the spread of consumer capitalism is dramatically polarizing the worldwide distribution of income. But as the demographer Glenn Firebaugh carefully shows, income inequality for the world peaked in the late twentieth century and is now heading downward because of declining income inequality across nations. Furthermore, as income inequality declines across nations, it is rising within nations (though not as rapidly as it is declining across nations).
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006
- The Sources of Economic Growth
- Richard R. Nelson
- Technological advance is the key driving force behind economic growth, argues Richard Nelson. Drawing on a deep knowledge of economic and technological history as well as the tools of economic analysis, he exposes the intimate connections among government policies, science-based universities, and the growth of technology.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 2000