This dissertation looks at cross-country patterns of economic and productivity growth. In particular, I look at the components of output growth in 5 groups of countries: Africa, Latin America, East Asia, South Asia and West and over the thirty year period 1960-89. The main objective of this...

The article turns to classical economic insights on the division of labor and to institutional reasoning to identify some costs and benefits of Open Source Software (OSS) and proprietary software production. It suggests that, thanks to its licenses, OSS favors market expansion more than...