Divergência e convergência nas ondas longas: uma perspectiva teórica evolucionária

• Ano de defesa: 2007
• Autor(a) principal: Conceição, César Stallbaum
• Orientador(a): Marquetti, Adalmir A.
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: ECONOMIA INTERNACIONAL; INOVAÇÕES TECNOLÓGICAS - ASPECTOS ECONÔMICOS; CICLOS ECONÔMICOS; DESENVOLVIMENTO ECONÔMICO
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/2542

This M. A. dissertation employs the evolutionary approach of economic thought to explain the different patterns of growth observed in the world regions between 1820 and 2006. The regions displayed distinct trajectories of economic growth due to role of institutions in the adoption of new technologies. The institutional environments influence the processes of innovation and diffusion of technologies and, therefore, the path of development of the countries. Changes in the technological paradigm are behind the long waves. Each long wave open a “window of opportunity” for the countries to engage in a process of growth and catching-up, where firms and national economies can acquire new positions, adapting to new organizational and social forms. Thus, changes in technological paradigms have a considerable effect over the process of catching-up, convergence and divergence in each long wave. Empirical evidence shows a process of convergence in per capita income between OCDE countries and “Asian Tigers” and different trajectories of growth in others world regions.