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The challenge of market power under globalization
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
The legacy of Adam Smith leads to a false confidence on the optimality of laissez faire policies for the global market economy. Instead, the polarized character of current globalization deeply affects both developed and ...
Democratic economics and improved governance: development policies for the G20
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
Democratic economics and improved governance can be guiding principles
for the newly formed G20, representing two thirds of the world’s population
and 88% of the world’s economy.
To get economies to work for the majorities ...
Non-communicable chronic diseases in the Americas: an economic perspective on health policies
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) are amongst the principal
burdens of disease in both developed and underdeveloped countries. The
main causes of these illnesses are well known. They are tobacco use,
unhealthy ...
Urbanization as a fundamental cause of development
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
I review the current theoretical and econometric literature on the economic
dynamics of urbanization and its relation to economic growth. I then report
research results on the short- and long-term impacts of urbanization ...
The technology gradient in the market economy
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2017)
Technological creation and mass production are usually associated with large-scale production, while technological absorption is found more often in small-scale competitive firms. Thus, the link between the innovative and ...
Democracia y desarrollo para México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
Desarrollamos un punto de vista que sintetiza las corrientes principales del pensamiento económico: neoclásica, keynesiana y marxista, así como las conclusiones de la teoría moderna del crecimiento económico, discursos que ...
Ciclo de vida humano y ciclo de vida urbano: urbanización y desarrollo económico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
El desarrollo humano y el desarrollo urbano juegan papeles esenciales e íntimamente interrelacionados en el desarrollo económico. La disponibilidad y el costo de los satisfactores de necesidades básicas de salud, educación, ...
Economic development and non-communicable chronic diseases
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
This article outlines the economics of non communicable chronic diseases (NCDs), necessary for designing evidence-based health policies to reduce the prevalence of NCDs. The main risk factors of NCDs are manmade: abuse of ...
A cross-country causal panorama of human development and sustainability
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
A broad summary of the theoretical literature on economic growth shows that this theory has transcended the neoclassical paradigm and that market rationality does not govern the human development process. Instead human ...
Divergences and convergences in human development
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
I conduct a cross-country analysis of the human development index (HDI)
components, income, life expectancy, literacy and gross enrolment ratios,
using Gray and Purser’s 1970-2005 quinquennial database for 111
countries. ...