Screen LibraryQuantifying sustainable development : the future of tropical economies /
Until recently, the phenomenal economic development of the Asian tigers, Chile, and Malaysia, as well as the sustained economic growth of the United States, painted a very desirable and optimistic picture of free markets, fiscal responsibility, and, more generally, the entire dogma of neoclassical e...
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Academic Press,
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| Publisher Address: | San Diego : |
| Publication Dates: | 2000. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123188601 |
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Until recently, the phenomenal economic development of the Asian tigers, Chile, and Malaysia, as well as the sustained economic growth of the United States, painted a very desirable and optimistic picture of free markets, fiscal responsibility, and, more generally, the entire dogma of neoclassical economics. As of the fall of 1998, however, the economies of many tropical countries have contracted severely, and the enthusiasm of the developing tropics for the free market and all of its ancillary policies is decidedly cooler. Have our traditional approaches to economics been failing the develo |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 761 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780123188601 0123188601 9780080492216 0080492215 |
| Index Number: | HC695 |
| CLC: | F061.3 |
| Contents: | Contributors -- Foreword by Lester C. Thurow -- Preface -- Section I: Introduction: The Tropics-Paradise Imperiled? -- 1. The Changing Tropics -- 2. A Brief Historical and Visual Introduction to Costa Rica -- Section II: Development and Sustainability -- 3. The Theories and Myths that Have Guided Development -- 4. Data on Sustainability in Costa Rica: Time Series Analysis of Population, Land Use, Economics, Energy, and Efficiency -- 5. Land, Energy, and Agricultural Production in Costa Rica -- Section III: Adding a Spatial Dimension: Tools for Dynamic Geographical Analysis -- 6. The Derivati |