This paper argues that in the context of the knowledge economy the coevolution of S&T and Innovation is crucial for developing countries. Two features limit such coevolution in this type of countries: (i) the conditions for generating variation, selection and retention (VSR) processes in both...

En este documento se examina la evolución de las economías de América Latina en 1990–2011, con el fin de identificar avances, pendientes y retrocesos asociados a las reformas de mercado que se aplicaron, en línea con el Consenso de Washington, y a las políticas económicas que le...

The book has a strong theoretical foundation with empirical illustrations from diverse Latin American countries. As a whole, it offers a comprehensive exploration of the foundations of the theory of National Innovation Systems. The authors explore the particular problems that many Latin American...

This comprehensive and innovative Handbook applies the tools of the economics of complexity to analyse the causes and effects of technological and structural change. It grafts the intuitions of the economics of complexity into the tradition of analysis based upon the Schumpeterian and...

This paper describes the dynamics of economic performance for the sub-national Mexican states from 1970 to 2006; the state variables used are the levels and the growth rates of per capita GDP. The authors situate this approach in a conceptual and methodological panorama of the existent literature....

This paper explores the existence of links among the recent trends in income distribution, in the turnover of the financial industry and in financial regulation, moving from Sraffa's analyses of money and banking. It presents a linear production model where a banking industry is introduced and...

The objective of this paper is to show how Mexico's strategy of financial deregulation and liberalization set the stage for the crisis that the country suffered in December 1994. The theoretical underpinning is Post-Keynesian, and more precisely, a Minsky-inspired analytical perspective extended...

This paper describes the dynamics of the economic performance of the sub-national Mexican states from 1970 to 2006; the used state variables are the levels and the growth rates of the GDP per capita. The authors situate his approach in a conceptual and methodological panorama of the existent...

The aim of this paper is to characterise the set of non regular economies, when there is a finite number of consumers with either finite or infinitely many goods. We prove that the structure of the equilibrium set is the same in both cases and that there exist bifurcations in some of these models.

The aim of this paper if to characterize the set of singular economies, when there are a finite set of consumers with infinitely many goods in the sense that goods differ in the time which they are consumed or in the state of the world in which they become available. There exist l available...