点此进入淘宝搜索页搜索　　參考價格: 点此进入淘宝搜索页搜索
　　分類: 图书,进口原版书,经管与理财 Business & Investing ,

作者： Philip Parker 著

出 版 社：

出版时间： 2000-9-1字数：版次： 1页数： 315印刷时间： 2000/09/01开本： 大32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780262161947包装： 精装内容简介

According to Philip Parker, the relationship between physics-based physiology and macroeconomics may come to dominate explanations of economic growth. His argument focuses on the so-called equatorial paradox--the phenomenon that a country's latitude explains up to 70 percent of cross-country variances in per capita income. After introducing concepts from physics and physiology as the building blocks of homeostatic utility, he explains the role of homeostatic utility in economic growth. Specifically, he shows that a country's performance is gauged not by its absolute level of income or consumption, but by how far it is from a homeostatic steady state governed by what he calls physioeconomics. Countries closer to their homeostatic steady state grow more slowly than those farther away. Parker shows how factors such as income, aggregate savings, investment, technology, entrepreneurship, production, and outputs per worker are influenced by the more fundamental principles of physics and physiology. He focuses particularly on the hypothalamus, the part of the brain that drives motivation, monitors homeostasis, and ultimately keeps us alive via neural, autonomic, and hormonal adjustments. He presents evidence that long-run growth can be attributed to variances in hypothalmic activity. A physioeconomic approach to growth can lead to better economic policies, measures of performance, and predictions of progress. To take just one example, policymakers would be quicker to realize that food aid to warmer regions can destroy local farming economies that supply adequate

作者简介

Philip Parker is Professor of Economics and International Strategy at the University of California, San Diego, and at INSEAD, Fontainbleau, France.

目录

Preface and Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 Empirical Regularities

3 Utility Physics

4 Utility Physiology

5 Homeostatic Preferences

6 Homeostatic Consumption

7 Measuring Performance

8 Predictions

References

Index

 

 

免责声明：本文为网络用户发布，其观点仅代表作者个人观点，与本站无关，本站仅提供信息存储服务。文中陈述内容未经本站证实，其真实性、完整性、及时性本站不作任何保证或承诺，请读者仅作参考，并请自行核实相关内容。