In the beginning of the 1990s, the continuity of the Brazilian fiscal crisis and the emergence of globalization (commercial and financial liberalization, denationalization and privatization of part of the productive structure, etc.) led the public policy-making for mitigation of regional inequalities – at an integrated national level – to disappear even from the policy-makers’ imagination, bein...

The divergent growth rates of New Zealand regions are a matter of concern to economists, geographers and policy makers. People have been concerned about the 'drift to the north' since at least the 1920s. Geographers have paid particular attention to the role of manufacturing industry in explaining the growing hegemony of Auckland (Taylor and Hosking, 1979), and in generating regional inequaliti...

Schumpeter chastised Ricardo for his alleged "vice" - the so-called "Ricardian Vice" - of drawing far reaching policy conclusions from utterly simplistic models, which, moreover, were underdetermined. The paper first argues that Schumpeter saw Ricardo's approach to the theory of value and distribution through a marginalist lens and therefore arrived at a distorted picture of the latter. Several...

Just as for people, a new year is a good time for a journal to stop, look back, and start a new beginning, hoping for a good season ahead. This is what we have been doing each year in the Croatian Medical Journal for the last twenty years. We will probably never stop doing this, even when we become an august journal, because the world of scientific publishing rapidly changes. This year, we pres...