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 ...

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 ...

La crisis económica del 2008 tiene causas de largo plazo cuya raíz se encuentra en la dinámica económica de la globalización. Construyo aquí, al estilo de Solow y con base en agentes miópicos, un modelo endógeno de acumulación ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I evaluate the optimality properties of a two sector market economy consisting of a mass production sector with market power and a competitive sector with small scale production. Adam Smith's results hold: the presence ...