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World economy

For example, while attempts could be made to calculate the value of currently unexploited mining opportunities in unclaimed territory in Antarctica, the same opportunities on Mars would not be considered a part of the world economy—even if currently exploited in some way—and could be considered of latent value only in the same way as uncreated intellectual property, such as a previously unconceived invention.


Wired Smart List

Beginning as a recommended list of 15 individuals that the next president should listen to (the first Smart List was published just before the 2008 United States presidential election), the Smart List has evolved into a list that seeks to identify influencers and ideas that will shape the evolution of the global economy, define future business trends, and usher in new paradigms of thought.


see also

Beverly J. Silver

Silver, Beverly J., Arrighi, Giovanni and Dubofsky, Melvyn, editors; "Labor Unrest in the World-Economy, 1870-1990", special issue of Review (Fernand Braudel Center), vol.

Daniel Yergin

This was followed by The Commanding Heights: the Battle for the World Economy, written with Joseph Stanislaw, which started out as a 60,000-word essay and described in narrative form the struggle over the "frontier" between governments and markets and the rise of globalization.

Economic growth

Unified growth theory was developed by Oded Galor and his co-authors to address the inability of endogenous growth theory to explain key empirical regularities in the growth processes of individual economies and the world economy as a whole.

Francis Gurry

International Intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy, Wolters Kluwer, New York, 2nd edition 2012 (with Frederick M. Abbott and Thomas Cottier), ISBN 978-0-7355-3958-7; 1st edition 2007, ISBN 978-0-7355-3958-7

Mexican oil boom

When the world economy was hard hit by the interest rates hike from Paul Volcker in 1982 to stop inflation in the United States, those highly indebted nations like Mexico, which invested heavily to develop its field, were in crisis.

PEGNet

PEGNet was founded in 2005 as a joint initiative of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), its implementing agencies GIZ and KfW Entwicklungsbank as well as the universities of Göttingen and Frankfurt.

Warwick McKibbin

The McKibbin-Sachs Global Model is a global economic model developed originally in 1984 jointly with Jeffrey Sachs is a widely used intertemporal general equilibrium model of the world economy.

World History Association Book Prize

Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy