We face a public goods challenge spanning urgent environmental, economic and social problems on a national and global scale. The question arises, what is the best way to produce public goods in a market economy setting? Their under-provision is due not only to a lack of political will, but to...

I conduct a cross-country analysis of the human development index (HDI) components, income, life expectancy, literacy and gross enrollment ratios, using Gray and Purser’s 1970-2005 quinquennial database for 111 countries. 1) A descriptive analysis uncovers a complex pattern of divergence and...

I show that the evolution of cross-country incomes is characterized by global divergence. To do this, the sample of non-mainly-petroleum-exporting countries having market economies during the period 1960-1997 is divided into five clusters of countries by a regression clustering algorithm...

En este artículo se analiza la dinámica del valor agregado manufacturero per capita como proxy del ingreso per capita de los municipios de México y condados de los Estados Unidos. Específicamente, se busca determinar si existe convergencia (absoluta o condicional), divergencia o...