Institutional Change and Economic Development

✍ Scribed by Chang, Ha-Joon, ed.

• Publisher: United Nations University Press - World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) & Anthem Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The issue of institutional development has come to prominence during the last decade or so. During this period, even the IMF and the World Bank, which used to treat institutions as mere 'details', have come to emphasize their role in economic development. However, there are still some important knowledge gaps that need to be filled before we can say that we have a good grip on the issue of institutions and economic development, both theoretically and at the policy level. This book constitutes an attempt to fill these gaps.

✦ Table of Contents

Institutional Change andEconomic Development......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 9
FIGURES......Page 11
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 15
FOREWORD......Page 19
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 23
CHAPTER 1INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE ANDECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:AN INTRODUCTIONHA-JOON CHANG1......Page 25
CHAPTER 2UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIPBETWEEN INSTITUTIONS ANDECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT – SOME KEYTHEORETICAL ISSUESHa-Joon Chang1......Page 41
CHAPTER 3EXTENDING THE‘INSTITUTIONAL’ TURN:PROPERTY, POLITICS, ANDDEVELOPMENT TRAJECTORIESPeter B. Evans......Page 59
CHAPTER 4INSTITUTIONALISM ANCIENT,OLD, AND NEW:A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ONINSTITUTIONS AND UNEVENDEVELOPMENTErik S. Reinert......Page 77
CHAPTER 5MODERN BUREAUCRACYJohn Toye......Page 99
CHAPTER 6CENTRAL BANKS AS AGENTS OFECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTGerald Epstein1......Page 119
CHAPTER 7CORPORATE GOVERNANCE,INNOVATIVE ENTERPRISE, ANDECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT1William Lazonick......Page 139
CHAPTER 8THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OFTAXATION AND TAX REFORM INDEVELOPING COUNTRIESJonathan di John......Page 159
CHAPTER 9THE RULE OF LAW, LEGAL TRADITIONS,AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: THE EASTASIAN EXAMPLEMeredith Jung-En Woo......Page 181
CHAPTER 10STATE FORMATION AND THECONSTRUCTION OF INSTITUTIONS FORTHE FIRST INDUSTRIAL NATION1Patrick Karl O’Brien......Page 201
CHAPTER 11THE ROLE OF FEDERALISM INDEVELOPING THE US DURINGNINETEENTH-CENTURYGLOBALIZATIONEric Rauchway......Page 223
CHAPTER 12INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMICGROWTH: THE SUCCESSFUL EXPERIENCEOF SWITZERLAND, 1870–1950Thomas David and André Mach1......Page 243
CHAPTER 13THE RISE AND HALT OF ECONOMICDEVELOPMENT IN BRAZIL, 1945–2004:INDUSTRIAL CATCHING-UP,INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION, ANDFINANCIAL FRAGILITYLeonardo Burlamaqui, José A. P. de Souza,and Nelson H. Barbosa-Filho......Page 263
CHAPTER 14RETHINKING IMPORT-SUBSTITUTINGINDUSTRIALIZATION: DEVELOPMENTSTRATEGIES AND INSTITUTIONS INTAIWAN AND CHINATianbiao Zhu......Page 285
CHAPTER 15DEVELOPMENTAL NATIONALISM ANDECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN AFRICA:THE CASE OF THREE ‘SUCCESSFUL’AFRICAN ECONOMIES1Julius Kiiza......Page 305
INDEX......Page 325
UNU-WIDER : Institutions for Economic Development: Theory, History and Contemporary Experiences......Page 0