Strategies of Economic Development: Readings in the Political Economy of Industrialization

✍ Scribed by Kurt Martin (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 333
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In the aftermath of the debt crisis, disappointment with the results of structural adjustment policies is leading to a reappraisal of theories of economic development and industrialization strategies. This book comprises a collection of essays on economic development.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Kurt Mandelbaum and the Classical Tradition in Development Theory....Pages 3-25
Modern Development Theory....Pages 27-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Economic Development: Objectives and Obstacles....Pages 79-95
Trade and Development: Some Basic Issues....Pages 97-111
The Kuznets Curve and Beyond: Growth and Changes In Inequalities....Pages 117-133
’Monopoly Capitalism’ and Public Policy in Developing Countries....Pages 135-151
Capital Goods in Developing Countries....Pages 153-171
Short-Term Policy Tradeoffs Under Different Phases of Economic Development....Pages 173-190
Equity with Growth in Taiwan: How ‘Special’ is the ‘Special Case’?....Pages 191-209
Dependency and the Newly Industrialising Countries (NICs): Towards a Reappraisal....Pages 211-229
The Contradictions of Socialist Economies: A Marxist Interpretation....Pages 233-262
Primitive Accumulation, Agrarian Reform and Socialist Transitions: an Argument....Pages 263-305
Development Planning in the Small Socialist Economy....Pages 307-325
Back Matter....Pages 326-337

✦ Subjects

Development Economics; Development Studies; Political Economy