Resources, Production and Structural Dynamics

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Resources, producibility and economic dynamics: a framework Mauro L. Baranzini, Claudia Rotondi and Roberto Scazzieri; Part I. Resources and Distribution in a Structural Perspective: 2. On the origin of the theory of rent in economics Luigi L. Pasinetti; 3. The political economy of corn markets D'Maris Dalton Coffman; 4. The classical theory of rent Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori; 5. Profit, productive rent and parasitic rent Piercarlo Nicola; Part II. Structural Dynamics: Resources and Multi-Sectoral Linkages: 6. Limits, resources and distributional trade-offs: structural constraints and opportunities Albert E. Steenge; 7. Producible resources and producibility prices in a dynamic Leontief-Type model Carlo D'Adda; 8. The transformative potential of input-output economics for addressing critical resource challenges of the twenty-first century Faye Duchin; 9. Capital mobility and natural resources dynamics: a classical-Keynesian perspective Heinrich Bortis; 10. The chimera of a complete analysis of economic dynamics Kumaraswamy Vela Velupillai; 11. Ricardian and Schumpeterian rents: fundamental ingredients for structural economic dynamics Michael A. Landesmann; 12. Towards a structural political economy of resources Ivano Cardinale; Part III. Resources, Institutions and Social Structures: 13. Monetary analysis, financial innovation and institutions before the Industrial Revolution: a paradigm case Lilia Costabile; 14. Institutions, resources and economic growth in transition processes: the case of Russia Constanze Dobler and Harald Hagemann; 15. Institutions, resources and the common weal Alessandro Roncaglia; 16. Development, capabilities and institutions Stefano Zamagni; 17. Conquering scarcity: institutions, learning and creativity in the history of economic ideas Pier Luigi Porta; Part IV. Resources, Industrial Change and the Structure of the World Economy: 18. Resources, industrial transformation and the structure of the world economy Moshe Syrquin; 19. Transformation and resources in the 'new' geo-economy Marco Fortis; 20. Developmental state and structural economic dynamics: necessity of industrial structure Sunanda Sen; 21. Resources, institutional forms and structural transformation in the BRICKs: the 'hybrid model of late capitalism' Andrea Goldstein and Keun Lee; 22. On manufacturing development under resources constraints Antonio Andreoni; Part V. Towards a Political Economy of Resources and Structural Change: 23. Resources, scarcities and rents: technological interdependence and the dynamics of socio-economic structures Roberto Scazzieri, Mauro L. Baranzini and Claudia Rotondi; Name index; Subject index.