Global Transition is an innovative study that analyses the problems and prospects of the Third World by building on the theoretical contribution - the dynamic-strategy model - made in the author's acclaimed Longrun Dynamics (1998). It formulates a general economic and political theory of development
Global Transition: A General Theory of Economic Development
โ Scribed by Graeme Donald Snooks (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 400
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Economic Development Redefined....Pages 3-16
The Global Strategic-Transition Model....Pages 17-28
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
The Unfolding Technological Paradigm....Pages 31-42
The State of the Third World....Pages 43-78
The State of the Second World....Pages 79-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Traditional Development Theory....Pages 107-125
Traditional Development Policy....Pages 126-157
Traditional Visions of the Future....Pages 158-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
The Global Dynamic-Strategy Model....Pages 175-184
The Driving Force....Pages 185-201
The Global Strategic Demand-Response Mechanism....Pages 202-215
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
The Strategy Function....Pages 219-228
Population....Pages 229-253
Capital Accumulation....Pages 254-264
Technological or Strategic Change?....Pages 265-279
Institutional Response....Pages 280-298
Government and Strategic Leadership....Pages 299-319
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Strategic Predictions and Policies....Pages 323-337
Back Matter....Pages 338-395
โฆ Subjects
Development Economics; Social Structure, Social Inequality
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