The innovation capacity-building can contribute to improve the integration of developing countries in the world economy. The economic development has been a much discussed subject of the period after the Second World War until the 1990s. After the implementation of a global regulation system for trade and capital flows in the 1990s, the development economics has almost disappeared in favor of different theories on globalization, on finance and on international trade. The purpose of this book is to show that the innovation capacity building in developing countries is necessary to improve their weight in the world economy and to facilitate their economic ties with northern countries. However, there are important difficulties due to the lack of proactive economic policies. Our aim is to contribute to the revival of the development economics. The issue of improving the well-being of the world population as a whole is highly topical. However, studies neglect the need to give economic, financial, technological and political resources to developing countries to promote their own development. One of the most important means is to strengthen their innovation capabilities that allow them to better integrate into the world economy.

The topic of the 43rd Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance was "Public Finance and the Performance of Enterprises." The title reflected profound changes in the thinking and approaches of economists traced back to economic developments such as the worldwide slowing down of economic growth, dwindling of productivity increases, growing unemployment, and rampant increase in public debt experienced during the 1970s and 80s. The Congress was not primarily concerned therefore with the economic efficiency of particular enterprises, but with the interface of Public Finance and the behavior of enterprises. The intent was to detect how fiscal policy decisions effect the behavior of enterprises and how this in turn influences the overall performance of an economy--to seek microeconomic foundations for macroeconomic relationships. This volume presents the proceedings of the 43rd Congress with papers from numerous international contributors.

This book aims at investigating from the perspective of the major economic dictionaries the notions of economic crisis and cycle. The project consists in giving an extensive summary of a number of significant entries on this subject, with an introductory essay to each entry placing them (and the dictionary to which they belong) in their context, giving some details on the author of the dictionary entry, and assessing the entry’s (and its author’s) contribution. The broad picture (including the history of these encyclopedic tools) will be examined in the introductory essays.

This volume explores and contextualizes the contributions of Gilles Paquet as a social scientist. A quintessential public intellectual, Gilles Paquet's long and multifaceted career has shown him to be a thinker of significant power and creativity. This self-described "homo hereticus"--always critical and sometimes controversial--has influenced scholars and policy makers in Canada and around the globe. The contributors reveal how his assessments of economics, politics, public administration, and education have stirred their minds and helped them make sense of the world around them. The volume also provides comments on Paquet's vision of governance, touching on concepts of which he has made extensive use: meso-analysis, social learning, and moral contracts.

De Keynes à Internet : soixante années de pensée économique remises en perspective à la lumière des débats actuels. Que retenir de la science économique, souvent brocardée pour ses erreurs de prévision ? Sont-elles plus graves aujourd'hui que dans les années 1920-1930 ? Quels sont les progrès récents de cette discipline ? Qu'apporte-t-elle vraiment à la compréhension de notre monde ? Alain Bienaymé dresse un panorama de la façon dont les économistes éclairent les transformations et le cours de l'activité économique, comme ses ruptures. Il remet en perspective les grandes évolutions de la pensée économique sur la théorie du marché, sur l'entreprise, sur le couple industrie-finance, sur l'État, ou encore sur des questions toujours essentielles comme la croissance, l'ouverture à la concurrence, le développement. Pour en finir avec l'économie réduite à l'économétrie, la réflexion d'un grand universitaire sur ce que peut aujourd'hui cette science décriée mais cruciale. Remerciements Définition des sigles utilisés Prologue. De Keynes à internet : économie et science économique en perspective Chapitre premier. Aux frontières de la raison Chapitre II. Les marchés débridés Chapitre III. L'entreprise enfin découverte Chapitre IV. Le couple industrie-finance Chapitre V. L'État au cœur de la mêlée Chapitre VI. La croissance espérée mais contestée Chapitre VII. Un monde sans capitale Chapitre VIII. Le prix du développement et son coût Chapitre IX. Ruptures Épilogue. L'économie « ici etmaintenant » et la science économique Références bibliographiques Index.