This book originated from a 2010 conference marking the fortieth anniversary of the publication of the landmark "Phelps volume," Microeconomic Foundations of Employment and Inflation Theory, a book that is often credited with pioneering the currently dominant approach to macroeconomic analysis....

This paper explores the effects of several cultural values, attitudes, and the like, on some of the main dimensions of economic performance. It shows a weak correlation between continental countries' relative endowment of some cultural attributes and the relative performance of their national...

Widely disparate results have flowed from various attempts to analyze the impact of public investment in tangible infrastructure on measures of economic activity. The author takes the substantial body of data put together by Munnell and Cook for 48 states over the years 1970 to 1986 and uses the...