Incrementum ad Absurdum: Global Growth, Inequality and Poverty Eradication in a Carbon-Constrained World

David Woodward

…important pro-poor shifts in development policies during the baseline period, it finds that eradication will take at least 100 years at $1.25-a-day, and 200 years at $5-a-day. While this could…
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Weak Expansions: A Distinctive Feature of the Business Cycle in Latin America and the Caribbean

Esteban Pérez Caldentey, Daniel Titelman, Pablo Carvallo

Using two standard cycle methodologies (Classical and Deviation Cycle) and a comprehensive sample of 83 countries worldwide, including all developing regions, we show that the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC)…
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Macro Policies For Climate Change: Free Market Or State Intervention?

Pablo Ruiz Nápoles

…seen” (Stern, 2006). To deal with this issue we analyze the two big currents about public policy measures in general: market oriented and state intervention. We also present the current…
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Revisiting Arab Socialism

Ali Kadri

The class in charge of development under Arab socialism was an alliance of the military with intermediate classes. Intermediate classes are sections of the working class differentiated by skill, higher…
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Again on Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century or Why National Accounts and Three Simple Laws Should not be a Substitute for Economic Theory

Christian Flamant

This paper reviews Piketty’s book Capital in the 21st Century. Although the facts described by Piketty are widely indisputable, the paper criticizes the actual economic theory underlying the central thesis…
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Austerity in Mexico: Economic Impacts and Unpleasant Choices Ahead

Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Noel Pérez-Benítez, Héctor J. Villarreal

…avoided large deficits. However, the current outlook on Mexico’s fiscal performance is complicated. Mounting pressures to raise expenditure, along with major changes in its composition, and structural fragilities in fiscal…
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Rethinking Economics: Downs with Traction

Stuart Birks

…effects of rhetoric on policy debate, and the importance of “traction” on political agendas are then considered. Propositions are presented indicating, in particular: policy issues will only be addressed spasmodically;…
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Editors

Email: wereditor@worldeconomicsassociation.org Jayati Ghosh, India, Jawaharlal Nehru University: jayatijnu@gmail.com John Weeks, UK, University of London: johnweeks@jweeks.org Susan Feiner, USA, University of Southern Maine: sffein@usm.maine.edu Esteban Perez Caldentey, Chile, Economic Commission for…
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Submissions

…should be given at the end of the articles in the following style with hyperlinks wherever useful and possible. For a review of the Harvard system, see: http://www.library.dmu.ac.uk/Images/Selfstudy/Harvard.pdf or http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~bstahl/HarvardStyle.htm…
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Call for Papers: The Political Economy of University, INC.

…or researcher—changed in response to policies designed to remake the University in the image of the for-profit business concern? How have you and your colleagues organized resistance to these changes?…
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