In contrast to neo-classical mainstream approaches to economics, this innovative Modern Guide addresses the complex reality of economic development as an inherently uneven process, exploring the ways of theorizing and empirically exploring the mechanisms with which the unevenness manifests itself. It covers a wide array of issues influencing wealth and poverty, technological innovation, ecology and sustainability, financialization, population, gender, and geography, considering the dynamics of cumulative causations created by the interplay between these factors.

In contrast to neo-classical mainstream approaches to economics, this innovative Modern Guide addresses the complex reality of economic development as an inherently uneven process, exploring the ways of theorizing and empirically exploring the mechanisms with which the unevenness manifests itself. Advancing experience-based theories in the debate of economic development, this Modern Guide provides a qualitative, holistic and nuanced understanding of economic inequality by uniquely combining explanations from a large number of academic fields. It covers a wide array of issues influencing wealth and poverty, technological innovation, ecology and sustainability, financialization, population, gender and geography, and considers the dynamics of cumulative causations created by the interplay between these factors. By looking at falling real wages, world income distribution, and refugees and migrants in poorer regions, it ultimately explains why wealth and poverty are so unevenly distributed globally. The cutting-edge discussions in this Modern Guide will prove invaluable for students and scholars from a range of disciplines including economics and development studies. In today's world of 'single-issue management', the alternative theories of mutual influence in this book will prove useful to policy makers working across a variety of economic fields.

This Modern Guide presents a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary thought on the informal economy, which, as the author demonstrates – far from being a peripheral feature of the global economy – is a system in which the majority of the global workforce are employed and which has pervasive detrimental effects. Formalising it is therefore a priority for most governments.

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} A Modern Guide to State Intervention investigates the impact of the changing role of the state, offering an alternative political economy for the third decade of the twenty-first century. Building on important factors including history, the role of institutions, society and economic structures, this Modern Guide considers economic and administrative interventions towards changing the destabilized status quo of modern societies.

Who is Erik Reinert Erik Steenfeldt Reinert is a Norwegian economist who specializes in the fields of economic history, economic development, and economic policy history. His areas of expertise include economic history. How you will benefit (I) Insights about the following: Chapter 1: Erik S. Reinert Chapter 2: Joseph Schumpeter Chapter 3: Development economics Chapter 4: Historical school of economics Chapter 5: Wolfgang Drechsler Chapter 6: Agricultural economics Chapter 7: Dependency theory Chapter 8: Tallinn University of Technology Chapter 9: Jan Kregel Chapter 10: Carlota Perez Chapter 11: Demonstration effect Chapter 12: Ragnar Nurkse Chapter 13: Rainer Kattel Chapter 14: Jayati Ghosh Chapter 15: Richard R. Nelson Chapter 16: Innovation economics Chapter 17: Technological revolution Chapter 18: The Other Canon Foundation Chapter 19: Ragnar Nurkse's balanced growth theory Chapter 20: Joshua Gee Chapter 21: Andrea Saltelli Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information about Erik Reinert.

This Modern Guide captures the evolution of foundational tenets, theories, frameworks and models that buttressed tourism economics into an evolving discipline, shining light on both new and old approaches. It systematically examines current and future trends and issues related to new economic perspectives, consolidating the notion of tourism economics as a discipline.

Who is Karl Polanyi Karl Paul Polanyi was an economic anthropologist, economic sociologist, and politician from Austria-Hungary. He is especially well-known for his work, The Great Transformation, which raises doubts about the conceptual validity of self-regulating markets. How you will benefit (I) Insights about the following: Chapter 1: Karl Polanyi Chapter 2: Free market Chapter 3: Michael Polanyi Chapter 4: Bill Dixon Chapter 5: John Polanyi Chapter 6: Eva Zeisel Chapter 7: Joseph Schumpeter Chapter 8: The Great Transformation (book) Chapter 9: Rajk College for Advanced Studies Chapter 10: Polanyi Chapter 11: Fred L. Block Chapter 12: Erik S. Reinert Chapter 13: Budapest School Chapter 14: Formalist-substantivist debate Chapter 15: Sonntagskreis Chapter 16: Liberal socialism Chapter 17: Rochelle Feinstein Chapter 18: Double movement Chapter 19: Economistic fallacy Chapter 20: Jane Ford Aebersold Chapter 21: Chris Hann Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information about Karl Polanyi.

Providing an insightful analysis of the key issues and significant trends relating to labour within the platform economy, this Modern Guide considers the existing comparative evidence covering all world regions. It also provides an in-depth look at digital labour platforms in their historical, economic and geographical contexts.

This well-documented book will prove to be the essential guide for researchers and graduate students in macroeconomics and political economy. It will also prove inspiring to a wider audience interested in modern Keynesian macroeconomics.

This edited collection uses a history of economic thought perspective to explore the evolving role of Latin America within the context of globalization. In particular, it examines the region’s resilience in the face of the global financial crisis. Economic Development and Global Crisis explains that Latin America is a region with distinct characteristics and peculiarities which have been shaped from the colonial era up to the present day. The contributions suggest that several features which were perceived as economic backwardness have turned out to be advantageous, and this may explain why Latin America is withstanding the crisis much better than Europe, Japan and the USA. This book will be of interest to scholars working in the areas of economic development, economic history, the history of economic thought and Latin American studies.