The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development

✍ Scribed by John Harris, Janet Hunter, Colin M. Lewis

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 375
• Edition: New edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The new institutional economics is one of the the most important new bodies of theory to emerge in economics in recent years. The contributors to this volume address its significance for the developing world. The book is a major contribution to an area of debate still in its formative phase. The book challenges the orthodoxies of development, especially concerning the role of markets. It includes articles from Robert Bates, John Toye and Nobel Laureate Douglass North.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 9
Notes on contributors......Page 11
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 14
INTRODUCTION: DEVELOPMENT AND SIGNIFICANCE OF NIE......Page 16
THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS AND THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT......Page 32
SOCIAL DILEMMAS AND RATIONAL INDIVIDUALS: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE NEW INSTITUTIONALISM......Page 42
THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT THEORY......Page 64
STATE FAILURE IN WEAK STATES: A CRITIQUE OF NEW INSTITUTIONALIST EXPLANATIONS......Page 86
MAPS AND LANDSCAPES OF GRAIN MARKETS IN SOUTH ASIA......Page 102
INSTITUTIONAL THEORIES AND STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT IN AFRICA......Page 124
THE ROLE OF THE STATE: THE CASE OF EGYPT......Page 148
COCOA PLANTATIONS IN THE THIRD WORLD, 1870s 1914: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INEFFICIENCY......Page 172
PRODUCTIVITY AND POWER: INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES AND AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE IN INDIA AND CHINA, 1900 50......Page 187
STATE INTERVENTION IN THE BRAZILIAN COFFEE TRADE DURING THE 1920s: A CASE STUDY FOR NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS?......Page 199
INSTITUTIONAL THEORY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN UGANDA......Page 215
THE WORLD BANK AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEBT CRISIS......Page 230
THE POLITICS OF MONEY IN MID-NINETEENTH-CENTURY ARGENTINA......Page 248
POLITICAL FACTORS SHAPING THE ROLE OF FOREIGN FINANCE: THE CASE OF GREECE, 1832 1932......Page 265
REGULATORY REGIMES, CAPITAL MARKETS AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BRAZIL, MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1840 1930......Page 280
THE STATE AND THE ECONOMY IN INDONESIA IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES......Page 298
EXPLAINING THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SUCCESSES OF RAWLINGS: THE STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS OF PUBLIC CHOICE THEORIES......Page 321
Bibliography......Page 338
Index......Page 369