What obstacles prevent the most productive technologies from spreading to less developed economies from the world … distances between populations, and document how such distances, relative to the world’s technological frontier, act as barriers …

This volume explores current issues in national and international policy, business and capitalism and economic theory …

debt, business and capitalism, and economic theory and behavior specifically pertaining to Brazil. The underlying theme … world. In Part IV, Sidney Greenfield theorizes on two coexisting but disjunct patterns of behavior in Brazil, which give … between global capitalism and indigenous ways of life in the same country. …