Economic theory and underdeveloped regions

TL;DR: The failure of the neo-Marxist dependency perspectives to accommodate and come to terms with the possibilities of peripheral capitalist development in the four Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs) of East and Southeast Asia should not then result in the embracing of the stages approaches espoused either by modernization theory or by Warren.

TL;DR: The authors showed that previous historians had completely misunderstood Spanish mercantilist thought and confused it with the chrysohedonism practiced by the common people and by the state in 16th century Spain.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend the standard economic geography model by introducing regional differences in technology levels and by assuming that initial technological gaps may be closed only when the learning capabilities of the lagging region are sufficiently developed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Romer-type endogenous-growth model is developed with two countries in which the production of a manufactured good requires differentiated intermediate goods and the invention of a variety of intermediate goods demands the manufactured good.