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David Ricardo, one of the major figures in the history of economic thought, particularly in the English classical political economy, deployed his activities as economist just two hundreds of years ago. Since then his economics has been generally estimated as the culminating point of the classical economics, and his name and theory has been exerting an enduring influence up to the present. This book, consisting of articles contributed by historians economic thought on money and finance, intends to reappraise the Ricardo’s monetary and financial thought on the occasion of its bicentenary and to offer historical clues to understanding today’s world wide financial crisis. The book consists o...
David Ricardo’s theories have been widely studied and discussed, including the prominent theory on comparative advantage. Ricardo and International Trade looks at the ongoing renaissance of the Ricardian international trade theory. The book’s interpretation brings fresh insights into and new developments on the Ricardian international trade theory by examining the true meaning of the ‘four magic numbers’. By putting together theories of comparative advantage and international money, the book attempts to elucidate Ricardo’s international trade theory in the real world. This book also features contributions from the Japanese perspective and compares Ricardian theories with those of his contemporaries, such as Malthus, Torrens and J. S. Mill. This book will be a valuable reference for researchers and scholars with interests in history of economic thought and international economics.
Winner of the 1998 Michael C. Meyer Manuscript Prize! Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food since 1910 traces the Mexican government's intervention in the regulation, production, and distribution of food from the days of Cardenas to the recent privatization inspired by NAFTA. Professor Ochoa argues that the real goals of the government's food subsidies were political, driven by presidential desires to court urban labor. Many of the agencies and policies were hastily set in place in response to short-term political or economic crises. Since the goals were not to alleviate poverty, but to provide modest subsidies to urban consumers, the policies did not eliminate destitution or malnutriti...
This unique troika of Handbooks provides indispensable coverage of the history of economic analysis. Edited by two of the foremost academics in the field, the volumes gather together insightful and original contributions from scholars across the world. The encyclopaedic breadth and scope of the original entries will make these Handbooks an invaluable source of knowledge for all serious students and scholars of the history of economic thought.
This book discusses the role of central banks and draws lessons from examining their evolution over the past two centuries.
In addition to general research contributions, volume 36C features a symposium edited by Andrés Álvarez on monetary economics in post-independence Latin America. The symposium features contributions from Matías Vernengo and Esteban Pérez Caldentey, Ricardo Solis Rosales, Florencia Sember, and Edna Carolina Sastoque Ramírez.
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
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La formación, estructura y funcionamiento de los sistemas financieros modernos tienen una larga tradición en los estudios de historia económica y en los de desarrollo económico. La mayoría de estos análisis, abordados desde una perspectiva histórica, han centrado su atención en experiencias o casos nacionales, y cuando se ha buscado la comparación, en ocasiones se ha puesto el énfasis bien en los aspectos normativos e institucionales de los problemas, bien en una verificación econométrica de la alta asociación entre estructura financiera y crecimiento económico. Similares resultados se han ofrecido por parte de los economistas de la evolución económica para las sociedades de ...
La educación es una consecuencia y una causa del nivel, tipo y grado de la desigualdad social en el mundo. En América Latina el problema de la desigualdad se ha agravado de una manera impensada. Hoy ya somos, desde hace dos años, de acuerdo con el estudio de desarrollo humano de Naciones Unidas, la zona más desigual social y económicamente del planeta. África sigue siendo más pobre todavía que América Latina, pero esta ya tiene índices de desigualdad peores que los de África. En América Latina no estamos avanzando en cosas fundamentales. Una sociedad más productiva, más armónica; una sociedad más funcionante requiere un equilibrio, una moderación de la desigualdad, y no hemos avanzado en eso. Ese es el tema que ocupa a todos los autores en las páginas de este libro.