Ramón López
Biographic Data
| ID | 3664569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ramón López |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ramón |
| FAMILY NAME | López |
| SIGNATURE | LÓPEZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5881-1365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Who Produces Natural Wine (and Who Would Like To)
In a world where wine markets are losing ground, the natural wine segment appears healthy and growing, gaining an increasing acceptance among consumers, the media and within wineries product lines. This dynamic category is broadly understood as wine crafted from organic or biodynamic grapes, made with minimal cellar intervention and no additives, with the rare exception of small sulfite doses. However, despite its growth and relevance for rural e…
My Ancient Faith
In this paper I consider the “Jeffersonian problem”: whether one generation has the right to bind future generations to an inherited constitutional order. Thomas Jefferson’s challenge rests on fundamental democratic principles of equality and consent, and therefore—while there may be substantial pragmatic reasons to be wary of his argument—any response must also remain true to those moral ideals. I argue that through the crisis of slavery and the…
The wealth gifted to the large-scale copper mining industry in Chile
This article estimates the economic rents received by the 10 mines that comprise Chile’s large-scale private-sector copper-mining industry. The methodology used produces a conservative calculation and includes two corrections that have hitherto been ignored in the literature: the reimbursement of exploration expenses and the compensation needed for volatility in the copper price. Estimates show that the wealth transferred to these firms between 2…
Fundamental accrued capital gains and the measurement of top incomes
On the Nexus Between Fiscal Policies and Sustainable Development
This paper hypothesizes that fiscal policy is one important factor determining whether or not environmentally and socially sustainable economic growth is possible. We postulate that tax policies affect the incentives to make the economy more or less dependent on natural resources and the environment as factors of production. So‐called pro‐growth tax policies consisting of a low tax burden, low direct taxes but high indirect ones, affect the compo…
The Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity
This paper hypothesises that labour and credit market imperfections – by discouraging off-farm income-generating activities and restricting access to inputs, respectively – affect female farm productivity more deeply than male productivity. The paper develops a theoretical model, which decomposes the contribution of various market imperfections to the gender productivity gap. Empirically we show that agricultural labour productivity is, on averag…
Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters
Intense climate-related disasters — floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves — have been on the rise worldwide. At the same time and coupled with an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, temperatures, on average, have been rising, and are becoming more variable and more extreme. Rainfall has also been more variable and more extreme
Interactive dynamics between natural and man-made assets
Global economic crises, environmental-resource scarcity and wealth concentration
Three new structural factors underlie the most recent global crisis: (i) the fact that several high-population countries have joined the growth process; (ii) the increasing scarcity of environmental and certain natural resources; and (iii) the extraordinary concentration of income and wealth that has occurred in the advanced economies over the last two decades. These structural changes have significantly strengthened the links between global grow…
Chile
The Policy Roots of Socioeconomic Stagnation and Environmental Implosion
The Quality of Growth
The future is a chance you should take. It is a creation and everyone has his or her own vision. It will look the way we make it look. —Maja Sasek Over 5,000 children and students from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, FYR Macedonia, and Romania took part in art and essay contests on their vision of the future for themselves, their cities, and their countries and regions. A selection of their paintings was displayed in an exhibit entitled “C…
Environmental externalities in traditional agriculture and the impact of trade liberalization
The Environment as a Factor of Production
Arte rupestre paleolítico en el yacimiento solutrense de La Cueva de Ambrosio (Vélez-Blanco, Almeria)
En el yacimiento solutrense de La Cueva de Ambrosio se han encontrado durante las campañas de 1992 y 1994 un conjunto de representaciones artísticas parietales pintadas y grabadas del Paleolítico Superior. Entre los grabados del panel I, se ha descifrado una excelente silueta de caballo, una representación de ave, unos protomos de bóvido y de caballo, así como otros trazos todavía no interpretados. En la parte inferior del panel existen pinturas,…
Dual economic growth in poor tropical areas
Trade restrictions with imported intermediate inputs
Environmental externalities in traditional agriculture and the impact of trade liberalization
Chile
On the Nexus Between Fiscal Policies and Sustainable Development
This paper hypothesizes that fiscal policy is one important factor determining whether or not environmentally and socially sustainable economic growth is possible. We postulate that tax policies affect the incentives to make the economy more or less dependent on natural resources and the environment as factors of production. So‐called pro‐growth tax policies consisting of a low tax burden, low direct taxes but high indirect ones, affect the compo…
The Policy Roots of Socioeconomic Stagnation and Environmental Implosion
Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters
Intense climate-related disasters — floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves — have been on the rise worldwide. At the same time and coupled with an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, temperatures, on average, have been rising, and are becoming more variable and more extreme. Rainfall has also been more variable and more extreme
Arte rupestre paleolítico en el yacimiento solutrense de La Cueva de Ambrosio (Vélez-Blanco, Almeria)
En el yacimiento solutrense de La Cueva de Ambrosio se han encontrado durante las campañas de 1992 y 1994 un conjunto de representaciones artísticas parietales pintadas y grabadas del Paleolítico Superior. Entre los grabados del panel I, se ha descifrado una excelente silueta de caballo, una representación de ave, unos protomos de bóvido y de caballo, así como otros trazos todavía no interpretados. En la parte inferior del panel existen pinturas,…
Dual economic growth in poor tropical areas
Trade restrictions with imported intermediate inputs
My Ancient Faith
In this paper I consider the “Jeffersonian problem”: whether one generation has the right to bind future generations to an inherited constitutional order. Thomas Jefferson’s challenge rests on fundamental democratic principles of equality and consent, and therefore—while there may be substantial pragmatic reasons to be wary of his argument—any response must also remain true to those moral ideals. I argue that through the crisis of slavery and the…
Fundamental accrued capital gains and the measurement of top incomes
Interactive dynamics between natural and man-made assets
Trade restrictions with imported intermediate inputs
Dual economic growth in poor tropical areas
The Environment as a Factor of Production
Arte rupestre paleolítico en el yacimiento solutrense de La Cueva de Ambrosio (Vélez-Blanco, Almeria)
En el yacimiento solutrense de La Cueva de Ambrosio se han encontrado durante las campañas de 1992 y 1994 un conjunto de representaciones artísticas parietales pintadas y grabadas del Paleolítico Superior. Entre los grabados del panel I, se ha descifrado una excelente silueta de caballo, una representación de ave, unos protomos de bóvido y de caballo, así como otros trazos todavía no interpretados. En la parte inferior del panel existen pinturas,…
Environmental externalities in traditional agriculture and the impact of trade liberalization
The Quality of Growth
The future is a chance you should take. It is a creation and everyone has his or her own vision. It will look the way we make it look. —Maja Sasek Over 5,000 children and students from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, FYR Macedonia, and Romania took part in art and essay contests on their vision of the future for themselves, their cities, and their countries and regions. A selection of their paintings was displayed in an exhibit entitled “C…
The Policy Roots of Socioeconomic Stagnation and Environmental Implosion
Chile
Global economic crises, environmental-resource scarcity and wealth concentration
Three new structural factors underlie the most recent global crisis: (i) the fact that several high-population countries have joined the growth process; (ii) the increasing scarcity of environmental and certain natural resources; and (iii) the extraordinary concentration of income and wealth that has occurred in the advanced economies over the last two decades. These structural changes have significantly strengthened the links between global grow…
Interactive dynamics between natural and man-made assets
The Gender Gap in Agricultural Productivity
This paper hypothesises that labour and credit market imperfections – by discouraging off-farm income-generating activities and restricting access to inputs, respectively – affect female farm productivity more deeply than male productivity. The paper develops a theoretical model, which decomposes the contribution of various market imperfections to the gender productivity gap. Empirically we show that agricultural labour productivity is, on averag…
Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters
Intense climate-related disasters — floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves — have been on the rise worldwide. At the same time and coupled with an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, temperatures, on average, have been rising, and are becoming more variable and more extreme. Rainfall has also been more variable and more extreme
Fundamental accrued capital gains and the measurement of top incomes
On the Nexus Between Fiscal Policies and Sustainable Development
This paper hypothesizes that fiscal policy is one important factor determining whether or not environmentally and socially sustainable economic growth is possible. We postulate that tax policies affect the incentives to make the economy more or less dependent on natural resources and the environment as factors of production. So‐called pro‐growth tax policies consisting of a low tax burden, low direct taxes but high indirect ones, affect the compo…
The wealth gifted to the large-scale copper mining industry in Chile
This article estimates the economic rents received by the 10 mines that comprise Chile’s large-scale private-sector copper-mining industry. The methodology used produces a conservative calculation and includes two corrections that have hitherto been ignored in the literature: the reimbursement of exploration expenses and the compensation needed for volatility in the copper price. Estimates show that the wealth transferred to these firms between 2…
My Ancient Faith
In this paper I consider the “Jeffersonian problem”: whether one generation has the right to bind future generations to an inherited constitutional order. Thomas Jefferson’s challenge rests on fundamental democratic principles of equality and consent, and therefore—while there may be substantial pragmatic reasons to be wary of his argument—any response must also remain true to those moral ideals. I argue that through the crisis of slavery and the…
Who Produces Natural Wine (and Who Would Like To)
In a world where wine markets are losing ground, the natural wine segment appears healthy and growing, gaining an increasing acceptance among consumers, the media and within wineries product lines. This dynamic category is broadly understood as wine crafted from organic or biodynamic grapes, made with minimal cellar intervention and no additives, with the rare exception of small sulfite doses. However, despite its growth and relevance for rural e…
Economics (13 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (8 works) · Market economy (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Macroeconomics (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Human capital (4 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Natural resource economics (4 works)