Challenges of african transformation [[electronic resource] ] : exploring through innovation approach / / edited by Mammo Munchie and Baskaran Angathevar

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462878903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2013
• ISBN: 0-7983-0349-2; 0-7983-0350-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): aMuchieMammo; BaskaranAngathevar
• Disciplina: 338.064
• Soggetti: Economic development - Africa; Developing countries; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Contributing authors -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Science and technology indicators in Africa: historical development and challenges -- Chapter 2. Building systems for innovation 'Take off' in African economies -- Chapter 3. Innovation in Africa, toward a realistic vision -- Chapter 4. Innovations systems in renewable natural resource management and sustainable agriculture: a literature review -- Chapter 5. Low-income countries and innovation studies: a review of recent literature -- Chapter 6. Human capital, R&D and endogenous occupational choice -- Chapter 7. Building systems of innovation in an African setting: the cluster initiative development approach -- Chapter 8. Are north-south technological spillovers substantial? A dynamic panel data model estimation -- Chapter 9. Where are the flags of our father? Rethinking linkages between social policies and innovation policies -- Chapter 10. Design theory of Letanta -- Chapter 11. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: A brief overview of the African economic picture reveals a paradox where the continent that has rich mineral resources, nearly a billion people and a land mass which includes the sizes of China, USA, India, ; Western Europe, Argentina together and still is larger than the sum of these regions is in an unacceptable state of being an object of aid, debt and loans despite the vast resources both known and yet to be expolored in it for the whole post-colonial period.

The Roman market economy [[electronic resource] /] / Peter Temin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452844803321
• Autore: Temin Peter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-84827-9; 1-4008-4542-4
• Edizione: [Core Textbook]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Collana: The Princeton economic history of the Western world
• Disciplina: 330.937
• Soggetti: Wirtschaft; Markt; Kreditwesen; Bankgeschäft; Handel; Geld; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome; Electronic books.; Rome Economic conditions; Rome Economic policy; Rome Commerce
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface and acknowledgments -- Economics and ancient history -- Prices -- Introduction: data and hypothesis tests -- Wheat prices and trade in the early Roman empire -- Price behavior in Hellenistic Babylon -- Price behavior in the Roman empire -- Markets in the Roman empire -- Introduction: Roman microeconomics -- The grain trade -- The labor market -- Land ownership -- Financial intermediation -- The ; Roman economy -- Introduction: Roman macroeconomics -- Growth theory for ancient economies -- Economic growth in a Malthusian empire -- Appendix to chapter 10 -- Per capita GDP in the early Roman empire -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were critical to ancient Rome's prosperity. Peter Temin, one of the world's foremost economic historians, argues that markets dominated the Roman economy. He traces how the Pax Romana encouraged trade around the Mediterranean, and how Roman law promoted commerce and banking. Temin shows that a reasonably vibrant market for wheat extended throughout the empire, and suggests that the Antonine Plague may have been responsible for turning the stable prices of the early empire into the persistent inflation of the late. He vividly describes how various markets operated in Roman times, from commodities and slaves to the buying and selling of land. Applying modern methods for evaluating economic growth to data culled from historical sources, Temin argues that Roman Italy in the second century was as prosperous as the Dutch Republic in its golden age of the seventeenth century. The Roman Market Economy reveals how economics can help us understand how the Roman Empire could have ruled seventy million people and endured for centuries.